The place and time: Rico Soiree’s penthouse above the Silver School of English in Kyiv, just after midnight Soiree, dressed in a black smoking jacket with a padded pink lapel,…

Zippy Zamazda gets that job with Rico Soiree’s School of English. Plans takeover After being offered a job by Soiree, teaching English to upwardly rising and globally minded Ukrainians at…

Along a wooded trail not far from a McDonald’s on the outskirts of Kyiv, an expatriate writer and a wife half his size find themselves hopelessly lost. Wife: Jim, are…

The shit really flies, with lawsuits and countersuits between Soiree and Zamazda Meanwhile, What If magazine sticks to its editorial guns After a week, Soiree fires Zamazda from his English-language…

Bret Boner, chief editor of Ukraine’s leading English-language weekly, lies chained to the huge Rodina Mat (Motherland) statue overlooking the Dnieper River in Kyiv. Boner: Woe is me – wretched…

Kyiv Poster’s Dick Reising suffers crisis of conscience Thought: Do I really like Styx, Cheap Trick and The Bay City Rollers enough to hold on to their albums. I don’t…

By Martin RatshitCaveitch (Shitcave@Kyivposter.com) With malicious last-minute editorial comments inserted by chief editor Bret Boner In the down and dirty world of small-and-medium-sized business, Ukraine takes the top spot for…

… in the never-ending saga of “Life Is Unfair” Or, how it all was, in part, for Andrzej Vishnya at the not-so-rosy What’s Not play mag in Kyiv, circa 2008…

Spanish Film Week at Kyiv Cinema, circa April 5 Noting the movie I didn’t see. For the one I saw, see Installment 3½ Manny Face was doing a chick from…

A crowd is gathered on the street outside Writer’s House in the center of Kyiv. The marquee, illuminated with large black lettering on a glittering gold background, reads: “Bilious Bill…