The twelfth print edition of Reporters magazine features 18 stories and 160 pages of reports, essays, and new and archived photo stories about the transformation of Ukrainian dreams and the birth of citizenship.
Over the past thirty-five years, Ukrainians' dreams have changed radically. What we aspired to in the 1990s is significantly different from what we are striving for today. The dreams of the majority reflect the country's path — from the collapse of the empire and economic crisis to several revolutions, war, and the struggle for our own voice. What does it mean to dream in Ukrainian today?
It may seem to us that our personal dreams are irrelevant at the moment. Because our main and common dream is for the state to survive. This is our forced response to the American dream: we strive not so much for our own prosperity as for the opportunity to simply live on our own land. As Vitaly Portnikov writes in this issue, we simply want our independent and sovereign state to exist, because our enemies want it to cease to exist. However, it is the personal dreams of each and every one of us that make up our shared vision of the future.
