Katya Soldak, Timothy Snyder, Serhiy Zhadan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Eric Potapov, Viktor Yushchenko, Viktor Yanukovych, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin, Yulia Tymoshenko, Petro Poroshenko, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolution, the Maidan Revolution, the Crimea annexation, the Donbass War; all through the eyes of her family and friends settled in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city located just eighteen miles from the Russian border.