recrudescence

How is that for a word?

Oh the people were wigging out today.

I saw my friend who is going to Portugal with her husband for four months so I had something wonderful to look forward to.

“…last May when a Russian S-300 missile struck the giant Faktor-Druk, one of Europe’s largest printing houses. The blast destroyed presses, incinerated some 100,000 books, and knocked out the three publishing companies housed there.

Industry experts estimated gloomily that as much as 40% of Ukraine’s publishing capacity had been destroyed.

But the sense of devastation was short-lived. In a show of solidarity, several European publishers offered to print Ukrainian books for distribution to millions of Ukrainian refugees around Europe.
An American philanthropic organization, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, quickly agreed to pick up the tab for Faktor-Druk’s reconstruction. The printing house was partially operational by September, mainly printing textbooks for the new school year. It is now working at 80% of its full capacity…”

There is a renewed enthusiasm for books in Ukrainian. 

“Yuliia Orlova, general director of Vivat Publishing, a division of the Faktor Group. “And the war is reminding Ukrainians that books are an outlet for joy, for culture, for travel, when other outlets are closed to us.””

And, as a nerd, I have to love the turn to books. 

In July 2023 Russia hit the Odesa's Museum of Western and Eastern Art. They didn’t destroy the paintings because the museum had already moved them to another city, but the conditions where they were moved to were not optimal. Ralph Gleis, director of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, suggested exhibiting them in the German capital as a way to preserve them. A special exhibition, "From Odesa to Berlin," will run from January 24 to June 22. After that it will tour Europe until it can return home.