In Bleak Ukraine City, a Duo’s Odd Experiments Win a Niche Online – The New York Times

Mr. Pavlov and his partner, Aleksandr Kryukov, 32, are natives of Luhansk, a sprawling, industrial city of Soviet-era apartment blocks and coal-heated cottages that was seized by separatists and shelled last summer in the war between the Ukrainian Army and the rebel Luhansk People’s Republic. Then came months of blackout and economic blockade, and now a bleak future as a pariah state, cut off from Ukraine but not a part of Russia.