From Ukraine’s humanist, cosmopolitan port of Odessa, the civic-intellectual collective Ukrainian Cosmopolis brings together those who refuse censorship and resist the comforts of orthodoxy — writers, scholars, and creators who hold fast to intellectual freedom and civic courage as public duties.
We are the only organisation in Ukraine openly confronting the weaponisation of culture — a core tactic of Russia’s hybrid war, designed to fracture the country from within. We stand firmly against the culture-war politics that enable this strategy.
Through public debates, residencies, and civic initiatives, we cultivate Ukraine’s civic resilience to hybrid warfare and polarising radicalism — the resilience necessary not only for its democratic, European future, but for its ability to survive.