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Palianytsia means bread. The classical meaning of this word is a large-sized round wheat bread, baked in the oven. At the beginning of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022, this word became a symbol, since Russian occupiers are unable to pronounce it correctly. Palianytsia is a shibboleth, distinguishing unequivocally friends from enemies. These works are made with found river stone, discovered by Zhanna and her co-author Denis Ruban in the Transcarpathian region (western Ukraine) where they live now, after having to leave their hometown, Kyiv. All funds raised from …