The Black Sea Whale is a new literary and cultural magazine expanding our knowledge and understanding of Ukraine by offering a unique perspective on current affairs with a mixture of personal experiences of the war, and broader political contexts beautifully illustrated by local artists. The Black Sea Whale is your beacon for freedom of thought, mental privacy, cultural independence, and self-determination. In this issue: Mature Ukraine by Oleskii Dubrov The Entertainment Industry of Russian Irredentism by Sergej Sumlenny Hammer + SIckle = Death + Famine by Cadmus The Adventures of Russian Propagandists by Nazar Tokar The Spectre of Smuta by Oleh…

The Black Sea Whale is a new literary and cultural magazine expanding our knowledge and understanding of Ukraine by offering a unique perspective on current affairs with a mixture of personal experiences of the war, and broader political contexts beautifully illustrated by local artists. The Black Sea Whale is your beacon for freedom of thought, mental privacy, cultural independence, and self-determination.

In this issue:

• Mature Ukraine by Oleskii Dubrov
• The Entertainment Industry of Russian Irredentism by Sergej Sumlenny
• Hammer + SIckle = Death + Famine by Cadmus
• The Adventures of Russian Propagandists by Nazar Tokar
• The Spectre of Smuta by Oleh Mahdych and Marichka Melnyk
• A Working Woman’s Tale by Marichka Melnyk
• Dues ex Ucrania. The Lost Ones by Viktoriia Antonenko

The stories in The Black Sea Whale are a second chance for the world: not just to listen, but to hear the sincere and true voice of Ukrainians, and to discover authentic Ukraine and its polyphony. They are about the prosaic and the extraordinary, about who we were, who we are, and who we can be

Ukraine, 250 x 165mm; 164 pages; Triannually