The Choven Publishing House has published Kateryna Zarembo's research on the Ukrainian Donbas, "The Rise of Ukraine’s Sun. Stories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from the beginning of XXI century" with the support of the Kharkiv Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Ukraine.

The author of the publication is an associate research fellow at the New Europe Center; a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”.

This book is about the Ukrainian communities of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that existed from the early 2000s until the Russian invasion of 2014, and whose existence was denied by the Russian-Soviet myth of Donbas. About cultural spaces, student communities, Ukrainian villages, and diverse religions. About those who wanted to live not in a mythologised past, but in a free democratic Ukraine.

The book “The Rise of Ukraine’s Sun” is a non-fiction, in which stories of various people, communities and milieus are presented against the backdrop of the historical landscape. In contrast to other research publications dedicated to the region, the book’s focus is local civil society, rather than political class or business. The book consists of five and a half chapters and is based on dozens of interviews, conducted by the author all over Ukraine, with the participants of the events which took place from the beginning of 2000 to 2014, i.e. before the Russian aggression.

We offer you a synopsis of the book "The Rise of Ukraine’s Sun. Stories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from the beginning of XXI century", an attempt to reveal the little-known Ukrainian "face" of the "Donbas".