«You Are Not Stuck in a Traffic Jam. You Are a Traffic Jam.» Advice from innovative mayor
Plus: 'Watching the World Die': Folk-Blues from Wild Ukraine
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Wealth & Democracy
Amid Latest Russia Troop Build-Up, Ukraine Names New Ministers of Defense and Occupied Territories
IRYNA VERESHUK is new Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, replacing lawyer Oleksiy Reznikov, who now becomes Defense Minister. The shuffle comes as the defense ministry first denied, then acknowledged a Russian troop build-up near the border.
Innovative Albanian Mayor: «You Are Not Stuck in a Traffic Jam. You Are a Traffic Jam.»
THE CITIZENS of Tirana, Albania’s capital can present trees to each other on their birthdays to help create an Orbital Forest around and through the city. During a International International Mayors Summit in Kyiv, we spoke with Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj about his innovations and his attempts to create a walkable, tree-filled metropolis.
Don’t Aim for Complexity Just Because You Are an Engineer. Advice from LinkedIn at Lviv’s IT Arena.
SHALINI AGARWAR, senior director of engineering at LinkedIn, shared the way she and her team constantly improve the software which serves 750 million members, by focusing each week on Availability, Quality, and Dev Productivity.
Lviv Live Music
«Watching the World Die.» Sasha Boole Sings the Folk Blues of Wild Ukraine.
«It was the moment when I figured out something is wrong with all this story,» Ukraine’s Sasha Boole said of his post-Soviet musical awakening. «We were living in a kind of weird world which is pretty artificial and they are trying to hide something from us.»
Click to read the story by Joe Lindsley and listen to songs from Sasha Boole …
About Us
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LVIV NOW is a project of Tvoe Misto (“Your City”), Lviv’s solutions-focused media hub, working with American journalist Joe Lindsley.
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