KRYTYKA Newsletter: "Voice of America," Current & Future Projects

Tue Nov 22 19:02:22 UTC 2011

Dear Friends,

In 2012, the Ukrainian Journal and Publishing House KRYTYKA is  
celebrating its 15th anniversary and despite the current difficult  
financial situation is energetically working to increase awareness of  
our high-quality publications.

Please find below our latest PR effort: Prof. Grabowicz's  
participation in the "Chas-Time" news edition of the Ukrainian service  
of "Voice of America." "Chas-Time" is broadcasted by the "P'yatyi  
kanal" in Ukraine in the prime-time slot at 9.40 pm every evening.

http://www.voanews.com/ukrainian/news/ukraine/Grabovych-11-18-2011-134132958.html

Our small team of volunteers in the US and our staff in Ukraine are  
currently working on a new, highly interactive, state of the art web  
platform that will bring together KRYTYKA archives from past years as  
well as current issues of the journal, create an intellectual  
community with blogs and comments, a discussion forum, book store,  
media content (audio and video podcasts), and a separate segment –  
"Krytyka Online" – with more concise analyses of the current situation  
in Ukraine written in non-academic language and geared towards a  
younger audience.

Another big and challenging undertaking is the creation of an English  
language version of the web site, which will offer to the  
international community and to non-Ukrainian speaking members of our  
diaspora a competitive and high-quality source of information and  
analysis on Ukraine. Given the present situation there, quality and  
reliable material for the international journalists and media is  
sorely needed. With its track record of publications of the highest  
quality in Ukraine and the region, KRYTYKA is best suited for this task.

Besides publishing a journal, KRYTYKA is also a leading publishing  
house in Ukraine. A number of recent books deserve your attention.  
Particularly, studies by Serhii Plokhy, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Maria  
Mayerchyk, Andrii Portnov, Karel Berkhoff, Volodymyr Kravchenko,  
Volodymyr Yermolenko, essays by Vasyl Makhno and Andrzej Chcjuk, and  
others. Please see a full list here: http://krytyka.com/cms/front_content.php?idcat=44&lang=1

It is important to stress that KRYTYKA is doing all of this despite  
the deep financial cuts it had to make because of declining financial  
support from Western and Ukrainian donors and sponsors. The Journal  
and Publishing House does not receive any financial support from the  
Ukrainian government (as do intellectual publications in West European  
countries) and has to rely solely on sales of books, journal  
subscriptions, and international support.

KRYTYKA is one of the very few high-quality publications in Ukraine  
that has survived the economic crisis and still continues to function.  
The Kyiv office had to take some difficult measures in reducing the  
number of technical and editorial staff in order to continue to exist.  
One of the drawbacks of such changes are occasional delays with book  
and journal publications – a compromise we are painfully aware of.

Nonetheless, KRYTYKA exists and offers the best in intellectual  
discourse, in social, cultural and political analysis that Ukraine has  
to offer. It certainly deserves your support.

While we gladly accept donations, your best support is a subscription  
for yourself or your friends to the Journal KRYTYKA, and your purchase  
of our books. If you would like to subscribe to the Journal starting  
with any month, or if you would like to order our books, please do not  
hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to provide you with all the  
necessary information regarding payment and shipping.

If you would like to make a donation, please indicate whether you  
would like to support our operational expenses or a particular project  
(new website, English edition, Holodomor series, etc.) Please find  
contact information at the end of this E-Mail.

KRYTYKA is working hard to become the more dynamic, competitive,  
reliable, and self-sufficient enterprise you want us to be. But we  
cannot do it without you, our supporters.

Things you can do to support KRYTYKA are simple and won't take too  
much of your time:

- subscribe to the Journal KRYTYKA and buy our high-quality publications

- recommend KRYTYKA to your friends and family

- if you are a faculty member, send a request to your University  
Library for an institutional subscription (at this point we only have  
a handful of them)

- become a KRYTYKA representative in your region or country - we will  
be happy to work with one and all who can help us increase our reach  
through sales of journal issues or books, and journal subscriptions.

If you have any questions, please contact us at the E-Mail address  
below.

Many thanks for being such wonderful readers and supportive friends of  
KRYTYKA - a truly unique undertaking in Ukraine worth your active  
support!

Very best,

Oleh Kotsyuba

- Editor of the Web Project, www.krytyka.com

- KRYTYKA Representative in the United States

kotsyuba at krytyka.com

KRYTYKA

Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

34 Kirkland St.

Cambridge, MA 02138

USA

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