This issue is about love that blumming. That vibrant feeling when you meet the love of your life — you can’t sleep, your heart’s pounding, and you just know everything’s about to change.
Vasyl Symonenko was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He was often called
“a poet without a stone in his soul,” which reflects his inner purity and depth of feeling. In the opinion of the Museum of the Dissident Movement in Kyiv, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.