At a recent meeting of Ukrainian and French publishers a few ‘basic’ facts about Ukraine were mentioned for the benefit of the French by way of introduction: the country has a territory larger than France and 45 million inhabitants. The French publishers’ eyes popped out in astonishment: ‘But that’s a huge market!’ one of them exclaimed. I believe educated people with no idea of the size of the state of Ukraine can be found anywhere in the world. Which means that the world doesn’t know much about Ukraine. It is Ukraine that is mostly to blame for this state of […]