Kyiv’s foodie scene is decidedly underrated (surprise: it’s not all about the chicken kiev, the city’s most famous export). Its other homegrown star dish is varenyky, flabby filled dumplings that often come drizzled with a thick sauce. Find that and other traditional Ukrainian dishes (pig ears, beetroot borsch) at Kanapa, a wooden ski chalet of a restaurant on cobbled street Andriivs’kyi Descent that’s faintly reminiscent of Montmartre. 

For a touch of the bizarre, try restaurant Spotykach in the old town, which specialises in (more…)

In the face of the Polish government’s rightist dogma, the country’s preeminent writer explores its history of ethnic intermingling.

Olga Tokarczuk is fascinated by Poland’s long history of ethnic intermingling.

The Warsaw Book Fair takes place each May in the National Stadium, a basketlike structure flecked with the red and white of the Polish flag. On a bright Saturday morning, hundreds of orange balloons given out by an audiobook company bobbed from children’s hands, and crowds of readers browsed the booths of publishers (more…)

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Meet Wincie Wong, Head of Rose Review Implementation at NatWest / The Royal Bank of Scotland
Wincie uses her background at the leading edge of creative and disruptive innovation in the banking industry to break down barriers and tap the huge unrealised economic potential of female entrepreneurs by making the UK one of the best countries in the world for women to start and grow a new business as recommended in the Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship published in (more…)

Knowledge is power! And the key to a fulfilling life. So get inspired with these wise quotes about the power of education. These sayings capture the priceless value of education and how its influence can touch lives.

Let freedom ring

Frederick Douglass was one of America’s greatest writers and thinkers, despite the fact he was born into slavery, a system that forbade reading. He knew that once you learn to read, you’ve accessed knowledge—and especially how to communicate that knowledge and pass it (more…)