Coilin O'Connor is a digital editor for RFE/RL. He previously worked as a translator and editor for the publications department of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and headed the English department of Radio Prague International. He has also had numerous reports published by various media outlets, including Deutsche Welle and The Atlantic, among others.
This year, millions of Ukrainians will be observing Christmas far away from their homeland and their loved ones. We talked to two Ukrainian families in the Czech Republic who have fled the war in their country about their memories of the holidays and of the friends and family they’ve left behind.
On the centenary of his birth, we look at the life and legacy of Yuri Knorozov, the Ukrainian-born linguist who is now popularly regarded as the man who single-handedly deciphered the ancient writing of Mesoamerica’s Maya civilization.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are observed in our broadcast region, we talked to Eugen Tomiuc from RFE/RL's Central Newsroom about the way Christmas is celebrated in Romania.
