the premiere of this documentary film by Ruslan Horovyi. Ukrops is based on a story of Luhansk resident loyal to the Ukrainian state, tortured for that reason by Russian occupants in 2014 during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Since late 2015 at the initiative of public figures, activists, diaspora communities and diplomats, screening of this film was held in different countries and even at the UN headquarters. 2017 – Refugee Literature Ruslan Vladymyrovych's creativity is characterized by a sober, humanistic view of the events of modern history and modern times. Prose works are filled with warm everyday stories about ordinary or unique people, which can be easily found on the street, or when traveling by train; sources of creativity are often the memories of the elderly, urban legends, his own rich life experience. One of the sources of inspiration is his work: in numerous stories he reveals the problems of social injustice, economic (often criminal) processes of the formation of capitalism, the spiritual crisis associated with the collapse of the Soviet identity and the formation of Ukrainian self-consciousness. His works are characterized by acute social themes, enthusiastic knockdown plots, psychology. A number of works return readers to the Chornobyl tragedy, as one of the decisive events in the recent history of Ukraine. The books Ruslan Horovyi published to-date 2002 – Таран (Ram) 2008 – Країна «У» (U-Country) 2011 – Buenos dias, chica 2013 – Гагарін і Барселона (Gagarin and Barcelona) 2014 – Ген воїна (Warrior's gene) 2015, 2016 – Казки на ніч (Good night tales) 2015 – 13 оповідань, або Те, повз що ми проходимо не помічаючи (13 stories or Things we passed by without noticing) 2016 – 40 ...або чому чуваки не святкують (Life ends at 40) 2017 – 1000 і 1 Ніч війни (1,000 and 1 night of war) 2018 – Конотоп Земля Легенд (Konotop – Land of Legends) Since 2017 Molodyi Theatre in Kyiv has a play Gagarin and Barcelona based on Horovyi's prose (and few other modern Ukrainian writings). Based on the stories of Ruslan Horovyi, director Julia Tamtura has made a short feature film The Moment, which won a prize at the Molodist Film Festival in Kyiv. References 1976 births Living people People from Konotop People of the Euromaidan Ukrainian journalists Ukrainian writers Ukrainian documentary film directors Writers from Kyiv