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The American kids at her studio, many of whom are of Ukrainian and Russian descent, helped her set the tone by dyeing her hair blue. “They’re laughing at the screen, laughing and talking one to each other,” she reported. The kids in Ukraine responded just as she hoped. “So as an anecdote, I tried to draw on the screen,” Litvak said. “They’re listening and they’re sitting for an hour doing what I told them to do,” Litvak said.īut she decided that this was not what the Ukrainian kids really required. Some of the students at the in-person studio Litvak runs in America got a glimpse of the demeanor of the class in Ukraine. “First couple lessons, they were really quiet and serious kids,” she recalled.
She usually has eight students in a class, though sometimes there are as many as 10. The platform had been focused on mathematics, but he welcomed Litvak’s art classes. Litvak contacted one of the platform’s organizers, Andreii Nikolaiev. Zdanovska, just 21, was killed by a Russian rocket on March 8 while volunteering to assist unarmed civilians in her home city of Kharkiv. Litvak then learned about an online educational platform created in memory of Yulia Zdanovska, a teacher who had won the silver medal at the 2017 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad. “Just to bring some joy to kids,” she said. She created a web page with the hope of providing art and life to Ukrainian children who had suddenly been surrounded by destruction and death. “During the COVID time I was teaching Zoom,” she told The Daily Beast. She was filled with a desperate desire to do something, anything. “Unfortunately I do not have this feeling that many people have this will end soon. “From the moment the war start, I really can’t believe this happened and I can’t sleep,” she recalled. He had proven to be even more evil than she feared. Litvak was teaching art at a suburban school outside of Washington, D.C., and a private studio she established for young artists when Putin attacked Ukraine. ”When Putin came to power, I understood immediately it’s time to run,” she told The Daily Beast. The ascent of Vladimir Putin so alarmed her and her husband, Misha Kachman, that they emigrated to America in 1999. Petersburg and married a fourth-generation resident of that Russian city. Mission accomplished.Litvak spent her own childhood in Odesa. But for a brief moment on Wednesday night, it provided a little bit of catharsis for social media users who grew up during the Bush administration in the early 2000s. Bush's gaffe is certainly no consolation for the many lives lost as a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq. Tens of thousands of people died in the war. Ouch.īush proceeded to chuckle and mention "Iraq" again to himself, before blaming his old age for the gaffe. 4) Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping. ".I mean of Ukraine," Bush followed up, correcting himself. We’ve rounded up a number of our favorite Gay memes to apply in 2021 below allow us to recognize which of them you locate the maximum fun 1) Thanks, but I’m gay. "The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq," said the former U.S president who was responsible for invading Iraq in 2003. Bush made the gaffe of the year on Wednesday in a speech in Dallas when attempting to denounce Russian president, Vladmir Putin, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. However, the one person you probably wouldn't expect to say that, just did. invasion of Iraq as "unjustified and brutal," especially at this point in history. You wouldn't be surprised to hear someone describe the U.S.