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Friday, April 4 2008
By Prune on Friday, April 4 2008, 16:50
Ukraine : refugee in unrestricted access
Ukrainian rock'n roll litterature
'Womb to rent'
And many more to come...
Tuesday, March 18 2008
By Prune on Tuesday, March 18 2008, 18:12
Here is a small selection of our work, in PDF, ready to be read. The presentation of the synopsis includes some pictures, all realised in February 2008 for this first edition of © Babel Reporter.
By Prune on Tuesday, March 18 2008, 17:47
A new wave of blogs, books and trendy bookshops is sweeping Ukraine, making writing the new playground of the country’s twenty-something’s. Why, how and since when writing in Ukrainian became a way of resisting the hegemony of the country’s powerful Russian neighbor and asserting a new national pride instigated by the Orange Revolution ?
Text : Prune Antoine
Photography : Cyril Horiszny
By Prune on Tuesday, March 18 2008, 16:38
Since the enlargment of the Schengen space in December 2007, irregular migrants coming from India, Pakistan or ex-URSS are trying to give a chance to build up a new life in Europe. Most of them keep crowding in the two retention camp standing along the Ukrainian-Slovakian border. But can Ukraine, the new entrance’s door to European eldorado, answer and fulfill those hopes ?
Text : Prune Antoine
Photographs : Cyril Horiszny
Thursday, February 28 2008
By Prune on Thursday, February 28 2008, 16:41
For the first edition of Babel Reporter in Ukraine, here are the topics that we will cover.
Women
In France and more generally in Europe, the use of 'surrogate mothers' is prohibited by law. But in Ukraine, the motherhood of substitution is becoming a more and more juicy business. Modern clinics and undergound structures are proposing to western couples without children to carry their baby and 'rent the bellies' of ukrainian women.
Immigration
With the signature of new visa agreements between Kiev and Brussels and the enlargment of Schengen zone in december 07, Ukraine fears of becoming the new Ceuta and a new destination of illegal migrations. While Ukrainian authorities have reinforced the monitoring of their borders, some retention camps (founded by the EU but in terrible sanitary condition) are coming up like in Mukachevo, along the polish-ukraino borders. Refugees from ex-URSS or Middle-East keep on crowding in.
Litterature
Ukraine seems now to be a country where litterary thrives. Following the examples of 'classics' ukrainian writers like Juri Andrukhovitch and its groupe of dissident poets 'Bu-ba-bu' or Andrei Kourkov, specialist of political satires and internationally recognised, a new wave of young authors like Ljubko Deresh, Irena Karpa or Serghy Zhadan -in their twenty-something- are emerging on the ukrainian cultural scene. Those baby-writers from the 'Majdan generation', the one having done the Orange Revolution, offer a critical and often trash vision of post-transition society, symbolising the renewal of national identity.
Religion
15 after the independance of the country, while most conventional churches are in decline in Central and Eastern Europe and new Evangelist Church are rising. 20% of all believers in Ukraine are supposed to belong to sects. In Kiev, Sunday Adelaja, a Nigerian pastor founder of the Embassy of God, participated to the Orange revolution and preaches now to masses of people, amongst them lots of oligarchs and youngs, seduced by its new and charismatic approach of social problem and politics : alcoholism or democracy.
Sunday, December 23 2007
By Prune on Sunday, December 23 2007, 16:57
The team of the first Babel reportage in Ukraine in February 2008 is completed. Each of the participants have been selected, not only because of their strong journalistic background -most of them are used to work as free lancers- but as well as for their curiosity and enthusiasm to get involved in new editorial projects.
Jan Zappner, 34, is a Berlin-based freelance photographer, working mainly in Eastern Europe, where he visited Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia and many other countries. His features concentrate on social topics, on humans and their daily lives which have been published in magazines like Rund - das Fußballmagazin, Das Magazin, Spiegel-online, FAZ, Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
See Jan's portfolio
Daniele Semeraro, 26, lives in Rome, Italy, and he is a professional
journalist. He's a contributing writer for La Repubblica and
Repubblica.it, works for a political TV programme 'Tetris' (La7) and collaborates regularly to one of the most famous italian blog about new technologies 'geekissimo.com'.
Prune Antoine, 26, French editor of cafebabel.com for the past 2 years. Graduated in International Law, Prune worked for Le Figaro, l'Express and Cosmopolitan. Her features about gays in Lithuania has been selected at the EU Journalist Award 2007.
Cyril Horiszny, 30, is a franco-ukrainian professional photographer specialised in Eastern Europe. Graduated in History, he has directed the Centre Culturel Français in Lviv before dedicating himself to photojournalism. Collaborating with international magazines (VSD, Le Monde, Focus, La Croix...), he exhibits regularly its work in art galleries of Kiev, Paris or Berlin.
Saturday, December 22 2007
By Prune on Saturday, December 22 2007, 18:51
The session 1 of Babel Reporter will take place in Ukraine in February 2008. Kiev, Lviv and the refugee camps in Mukachevo along the ukraino-solvakian border ...
