UKrant: 'I live in a parallel reality'

Soon she will be starting a three-month placement at an auction house in Amsterdam. Since those don’t exist in Ukraine, she hopes to get a job at one after she finishes her Master’s. A job-seeking permit will extend her Schengen visa for another year. That she has this chance to look for a job in western Europe is a major difference to previous generations, who were restrained by the Iron Curtain.