Dimitri's hometown of Harkov has been mostly pro-Russian since USSR. For the past year he hasn't heard a single person express love for Russia or its occupants. He says Ukrainian made stuff suddenly got popular because of those who claim Ukrainian culture doesn't even exist. Dimitri: "I think that Russians are the good guys"
These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how things are changing, from gamers’ demographics to the games’ content. And a year after our last conversation with Dmytro, a heartsick resident of the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, we check back in to see how he has been.
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