The Hotspot Ukraine speakers are:

Mark Neville: The British photographer has been documenting life in Ukraine since 2015 with subjects ranging from holidaymakers on the beaches of Odessa and the Roma communities on the Hungarian border to those internally displaced by the war in Eastern Ukraine. Eighty of Neville’s photographs are brought together in his new book, Stop Tanks With Books, edited by David Campany, together with short stories about the conflict from Ukrainian novelist Lyuba Yakimchuk; research from the Centre of Eastern European Studies in Berlin about the 2.5 million Ukrainians already displaced by the war; and a call to action for the international community. Neville’s book project, Stop Tanks With Books, calls on the international community to urgently support Ukraine and help deter further Russian invasion. Click here to read an interview with Neville on Ukraine. 

Tanya Logacheva: Tanya holds a master degree in Finance from Kiev National Economic University. She also studied journalism at the University of Modern Journalism in Moscow but she decided not to get the diploma on the final semester, due to war conflict between Ukraine and Russia (2014). In 2019 she joined «A-Cube» company as Head of Marketing and Festival Direction and since 2013 she has been working in discounter retail chain «HalfPrice», where she maintains cooperation with the company as a member of Board of Directors focusing mainly on HR, Marketing and Organizational Design.