Larissa Babij

Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian-American translator, writer, and Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais method) teacher based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her translations of Ukrainian artists–thinkers have appeared in Krytyka and The Evergreen Review. She is also a freelance interpreter between Ukrainian and English, specialising in movement/performance and military training. Her book A Kind of Refugee, based on her wartime dispatches on Substack, will be published by ibidem Press in 2024.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Victoria Amelina, Three Poems
Kateryna Iakovlenko, A Voice from Underground

Contact: larissa.babij@gmail.com

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Culture as Security

• Issue 5 (October 2025)

This issue of the London Ukrainian Review takes a look at culture as a matter of national security. Highlighting the voices of cultural figures who defend Ukraine with arms, it also examines culture as a tool of Russia’s imperialist expansion, all the while insisting on a bond between cultural familiarity and political solidarity.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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‘Defeat the Enemy and Liberate the Space’: Peter Pomerantsev on Propaganda and Civic Culture

• Issue 5 (October 2025)

How can Ukraine’s culture of resistance serve the country’s security? Olesya Khromeychuk spoke to Peter Pomerantsev about the subtleties of waging information warfare, the challenges of cultivating a world of truth and justice today, and creating the kind of space where democracy can be practised.

Olesya Khromeychuk
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