Bridgid McCarthy

Reporter Brigid McCarthy provides a snapshot of the culture of corruption in Ukraine. She follows an American businessman as he tries to open his own cafe there, without paying any bribes.

Reporter Brigid McCarthy profiles Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, he’s written more than a dozen novels and children’s stories. But Kurkov says all of his stories are really about the evolution of the post Soviet man.

Ukraine has one of the feistiest, most pluralistic media anywhere in the former Soviet Union. But journalists have begun protesting what they say is censorship and political pressure from the country’s new government. Brigid McCarthy reports from Kiev.

Mad Heads XL is one of the most popular rock bands in Ukraine. It’s also among the few Ukrainian bands with a sizable international following. Brigid McCarthy reports from Kiev.

When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, they seized millions of Ukrainians and sent them back to Germany as slave laborers. When the laborers who survived went home after the war, they were treated as Nazi collaborators. Reporter Brigid McCarthy reports.