A permanent collection at Chicago's Ukrainian National Museum sheds light on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
by Deanna Isaacs
At the end of November, as their fellow students in Lviv, Ukraine, were taking to the streets to protest President Viktor Yanukovych's snub of the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia, Khrystyna Bondarieva and Juliia Bukhtoiarova boarded a plane to the States. A few days later, as protests escalated in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, the two were dressing mannequins in the main-floor gallery of Chicago's Ukrainian National Museum, where they'll be interning through the end of the month.…[ Read more ]