The BEARR Trust is delighted to welcome Oksana Yurchenko as the new part-time Website Assistant responsible for the Russian and Ukrainian sides of the website. Oksana holds a Specialist degree in Translation from Mariupol State University in Ukraine. She worked as a translator and interpreter in diplomatic institutions in Mariupol and Kyiv. Subsequently, she moved …

Review by Janet Gunn, BEARR Trustee Andrey Kurkov is probably the best-known living Ukrainian writer outside his own country, and especially in the UK. His ‘Death and the Penguin’, set in the aftermath of the break-up of the Soviet Union, was probably the first to catch the attention of British readers. Many followed, most recently …

By Beth Saffer, Head of Older Peoples Programmes, World Jewish Relief World Jewish Relief first started looking into the issue of dementia in Ukraine and our other Eastern European countries of operation (Moldova, Belarus and Georgia) back in 2015. The world, of course, was different then. Pre-Covid, pre-war in Ukraine. Yet all was far from …

Deadline for applications 15 September 2024 The BEARR Trust is looking for a UK-based bilingual Russian/Ukrainian translator with excellent English, to work on a part-time and freelance basis on the tasks described below. The BEARR Trust is a small British charity supporting vulnerable groups in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and has …

To title a book I Love Russia, in these times, is provocative. It invites questions, including: What is ‘Russia’? Or, if that is too complicated, which aspects of Russia does the author love, and why? Although The BEARR Trust currently has little contact with Russia, and is unable to work there, such questions remain pertinent, …