We present the pages of the regular 28rd issue of the Magazine "Kyiv Diplomatic", which is being prepared for printing

 

LINA KOSTENKO: THE WORD THAT BECAME A SYMBOL OF THE NATION

This material is an attempt to feel the spiritual code of Ukraine through the figure of Lina Kostenko. At a time when culture is once again becoming a line of defense, her word restores our faith in the power of truth, in dignity, in the fact that even silence is able to speak freely. Lina Kostenko is not just a poetess, she is an era. Her word sprouted through the concrete of Soviet lack of freedom, her silence sounded louder than hundreds of manifestos, her poetry became the prayer of a nation that endured, survived and did not lose itself. Lina Kostenko is not only literature, it is cultural diplomacy that revealed to the world the meaning of the Ukrainian heart: nobility, honor and indomitability.