” He who licks the knife will soon cut his tongue », Ukrainian proverb. Yes, I said to myself In G Major that it was not bad to enter a field of war, armed with words. Suicidal approach, I grant you, but at a time of alarming Ukrainian news, we have the right.
To warm up the morale, who better thanOlga Ruzhelnyk, a doctoral student at the University of Nanterre (near Paris) who had the smart idea of coming into the world just when the USSR was bowing out, Ukrainian independence on the way. Today, specialist in ultra movements of his dear country, I beg you to believe that the knife bleeds, but that the tongue hangs loose. La Ruzhelnyck hones her thesis titled Ultras of Ukrainian football and political reconfigurations around the Maidan and above all she catches her breath after living the first hours of the conflict in a cellar, in Kharkiv (400 km from kyiv)…
Olga Ruzhelnyk’s musical choices:
Plach Yeremihi Vona
Andrii Khlyvnyuk
Kalush Orchestra Stefania (Official Video Eurovision 2022)