Ukraniane | Teens

: To avoid looking like a suspicious gathering, they met in networks of no more than three people at a time.

Youth in action: How UPSHIFT is helping shape Ukraine’s future ukraniane teens

They called it "The Most Dangerous Book Club in the World." Because Ukrainian textbooks and literature had been deemed "extremist," simply owning a physical copy of a poem by Taras Shevchenko could carry a five-year prison sentence. To survive, the teens went underground: : To avoid looking like a suspicious gathering,