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Marina
-Where do you live and what is it like?
I live in private house in village called Geronymivka near Cherkassy. I moved there last summer and I like it very much. It takes not so long time for me to get to Cherkassy to work or for meeting with my friends.
I love Cherkassy - it's beautiful town, but in the evening I love to come back home in silence and fresh air.
-What are your favorite things to do?
I love traveling! I've been in many countries in Europe, in Israel....but it's not very cheap for our salaries. I try to go somewhere at least once a year. I like interior design, creating something special and fun. As we have a big river, Dnieper, I like fishing and go boating, in summer we spend weekends on islands. Also, I play in [a] music band - blues, rock-n-roll, etc...
-How old are you?
I'm 28.
-What do you do either for schooling or as a job?
I work in music school – I’m a piano teacher. Also I do social work in welfare fund, leadership trainings with youth.
-How do you and your friends get most of your information about the world? (Internet, TV, Radio, etc.)
Internet, sometimes Radio in the car while driving to my working place. I have no TV-set at home. It's our own choice what to watch: movies or something else. I don't like our TV-programs - they impose stereotypes and standard thoughts to people and they don't have their own mind.
-I know both Russian and Ukrainian are popular languages in Ukraine. Which language(s) do you speak? Are there differences between the people that use Ukrainian and the people that speak Russian?
I speak both languages. At work - Ukrainian. I work with kids and they are new Ukrainian generation, and their native language is Ukrainian. It's more natural for them to speak and to study in Ukrainian. I was born in USSR and my parents spoke Russian. With my friends and family I speak Russian, but when someone speaks Ukrainian it's not [a] problem. I think, that in the future Ukraine has to have one language - Ukrainian, to have its real patriotic idea and not to be East oriented (to Russia).
-What is your favorite TV show, website, newspaper, magazine, book?
Wikipedia, Facebook, about other [things]- I just look for the information in Google.
-In your school, how much did you learn about "media education?" That includes how to use different types of media, how to understand the motives of media producers, and how to produce your own media content.
In school there was nothing about that, in college also. In university I studied a lot about that - my second degree is in informational science.
-How much of the media you use (TV shows, websites, etc.) is produced in Ukraine? How much is from another country?
I can't say. I never put attention...maybe 50/50.