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At the end of April, part of the team of the Ukrainian Maritime Apostleship — National Director Rev. Oleksandr Smerechynskyi and Program Director of the Ukrainian office Eugene Barsukov — undertook a working visit to the United States. The visit had a strategic character and combined participation in a global environmental dialogue, a series of […]
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At the end of April, part of the team of the Ukrainian Maritime Apostleship — National Director Rev. Oleksandr Smerechynskyi and Program Director of the Ukrainian office Eugene Barsukov — undertook a working visit to the United States. The visit...
Some lighthouses stand alone. Others stand in the middle of city life — where fishers head out to sea in the morning and families walk the waterfront in the evening. The Felgueiras lighthouse in Porto is the second kind. It...
Most people have never heard of Khabilivka. It is a small village in the lower reaches of the Dnipro — the kind of place that does not appear in the news and does not feature on tourist itineraries. But on...
Not every lighthouse stands on a cliff above the open sea. Not every one is visible from dozens of kilometres away, and not every one has passed into legend. Some lighthouses are quiet and practical. They do not impress with...
Some islands exist on maps. Others exist in the consciousness of an entire nation. Snake Island — Zmiinyi — belongs to the second kind. A small, rocky patch of land covering less than 0.2 square kilometres, lost in the Black...
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At the end of April, part of the team of the Ukrainian Maritime Apostleship — National Director Rev. Oleksandr Smerechynskyi and Program Director of the Ukrainian office Eugene Barsukov —
Some lighthouses stand alone. Others stand in the middle of city life — where fishers head out to sea in the morning and families walk the waterfront in the evening.
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