anchor.diff:  What you can do is be successful in a small niche. 
   Previously it was difficult to deliver your work to that niche because of the geographic restrictions. 
   That is not the case anymore. 
  -If you're band from Ukraine making music in some specific genre/style, 
  -your fans/listeners no longer need to be in the same city, they can be around the world.
  +If you're a band from Ukraine making music in some specific genre/style, 
  +your fans/listeners no longer need to be in the same city, or even country, they can be around the world.
   
   In the last 50 years for a lot of Ukrainian artists' success meant going to Moscow (which was a center of the bigger market for Soviet and post-Soviet countries). The focus changed completely recently. Currently, a lot of young Ukrainian bands do high-quality music oriented on the Western and global market.
   
  
positive.code: ### Conclusion
  
  You can be pessimistic or optimistic about Ukrainian future. It's hard to predict what would happen next. 
  There is great potential and a lot of opportunities, some are described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdSQuanI8Z8[Ukraine is open for U video].
  
  But I think that reforms from our government are not as important as two things I talked about above. 
  There is a big demand among progressive young people for living (and building) modern Western state. 
  There are artists who can show to the rest of us what we want and need and there is middle-class 
  that would be able to execute these changes. 
  None of this people is going to ask for the permissions from our government or from other countries. 
  And that is the biggest fundamental change that happened. 
  People did realize that they are in charge of everything and there is a way to achieve what they want.
  
  
negative.code: What even worth that several generations didn't have good roles models. 
  "Bad guys" had better chances of success, which created negative dynamics in the society and probably some hopelessness.
  
  In the last 10 years in Ukraine, we started to have some tiny layer of middle-class people 
  that were able to earn enough money for the comfortable living. 
  It's hugely important to have these people. 
  Because the truth is after some income level more money doesn't bring you more happiness. See http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-for-happiness-75000-a-year/[WSJ article] which says:
  