Chris G. Collison

A close up of an eyeglass lens being cut

Ukrainian eyeglasses market brings pains of deindustrialization into focus

Jobs

The ‘optical capital’ of the Soviet Union in Izyum, Ukraine, struggles amid regional economic decline on the borders of a hot war. 

Close up of a woman wearing a head scarf in a church near a gold cross.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church gains independence from Moscow: ‘We have been waiting for this’

Religion