[eBosnian MoFA] Interviews: Nazar Sivukha

Day 4,201, 20:30 • Published in Bosnia and Herzegovina Czech Republic • by Clorofila

Dear people!

I decided to interview some players in the game, not the usual ones. They deserve to be listened, read, shown. This starts with Nazar Sivukha.

Who is Nazar Sivukha in the game?

A proud commander of his good ol’ MU “Fobos” in the first place, I guess. Everything else was always secondary for me. Fobos is the main niche I occupy. The nickname is a reference to a legendary Ukrainian modern artist Leś Poderevjanśký, who has written plenty of plays which now have become a living classic of Ukrainian satire and are not for staging, but for reading (or listening an author’s declamation) only. Nazar Sivukha (for those who can read cyrillics, it’s “Назар Сівуха”, as it’s been pronounced by the author himself) is one of the characters of one of these plays.


Who is the person behind Nazar, is there any difference, can you tell us something about you in real life (what you wanna share)?

That person’s name is Nazar too. I’m a linguist IRL, make money from translating and tutoring a primary language, which is Finnish for me. I also try to study Latvian by myself and recently received some material for studying Udmurt, as a finno-ugrist of some sort. The main hobby is music; I’m an amateur musician with some bass skills, make own short compositions with a computer soft sometimes although I can’t read notes.



How is eUkraine like a community in this game?

It’s divided by two, first of all. Some people in our community are way too obsessed with RL politics and they sound like they don’t play a game and take it too seriously instead, which inevitably leads to unwanted conflicts inside the community. But one thing you have to understand about Ukraine, in general, is that it is a large country – 1316 km between Western and Eastern borders, that’s more than the distance between Berlin and the capital of my beloved country, Kyiv, which makes 1292 km, according to Google Maps. My people live in steppes and forests, on the beaches of Black and Azov sea and amid Carpathian mountains. These people are too different to agree on everything, and that’s the best thing about our community if you ask me.


Who are your accomplices and friends in the game at present?

That might be the hardest question to answer to, ‘cause I play this game for so long time there are way too many people whom I may recognize as an accomplice, and naming some particular of them wouldn’t be fair regarding somebody else to be named as a helper and supporter, but being forgotten hereby. In general, I might say I have a special relation to some specific groups of players. They’re fighters of several Ukrainian MUs like Ukrainischen Sitscher Schutzen, UArmy and especially Fobos, of course. The Republican Party, which I’m a member of, is indeed my political dream team which I’m proud to be part of! There’s also a Swiss MU called PC-7 Team, I’m looking forward to improve and develop cooperation with them. Talking about countries, I spend relatively much time on Discord servers of Finland and Latvia and might say I’ll always sympathize these lands no matter which alliances the eTime will put us in. It’s more or less about my RL attitude to them, however, I don’t have any special attitude to anyone based strictly on eR circumstances, to be honest. Like, I gained a cool friend from eGreece after I had immigrated there temporarily when we were allies. And if he did still play this game, I’d wish him all the best luck on the battlefield for his allies, ‘cause he was a true son of eAlexander the eGreat )


Is there anything that you would never do again in the game here in eRepublik/for eRepublik / for friends, alliances?

I’m very careful about ePolitics, I think. You don’t gain very much allies being a President, though you may lose comparatively many eFriends doing what you’re sure is right, but what is not a popular decision. I had been a president once, in November 2017, and the most noticeable achievements of my government men (who made an awesome team to work with) were the deoccupation from the eUSA and realization of the TW with eLatvia, which is the oldest one of all the ongoing. I can’t say I’m sure I will never ever run for ePresidency, but I really try to avoid ePolitics nowadays. I enjoy being rather allied to my fellow Ukrainians much more than “us” being right and “them” being wrong if you know what I mean. Regretfully, our unification is not an easy task to accomplish today.


What keeps you clicking here? why you still log in?

I’ve spent many years playing this game, that’s some sort of a habit for me. Not the bad one if I don’t spend too much time on it. I practice my skills in this game, and they’re not only the languages, which have been Belarusian, Finnish, Latvian and English in different periods of time. eRepublik made me to improve my Photoshop skills, for example, to work with newspapers’ designs and MUs’ symbolics. I keep on gaining new connections thanking to this game, so even though all the modules except military are weak nowadays, I can still find adorable people around the globe, which is lovely itself!



Can you show us some images of the city where you live?

I’m not a good photographer at all, but I also wouldn’t like to share you pictures which you could find in Google by yourself. So there are just a few shots not from special places, but still special for me. They’re far from being technically perfect, but let’s just say that’s the way I see and love my Kyiv.

Pozńaky park, situated on the Left bank of the Dnipro river (In addition to ordinary “rajons” – Ukrainian analogue of district –, Kyiv is also can be divided by two parts: “Left bank” and “Right bank” of Dnipro)




Kyiv Metro Bridge at the early morning. Looking at the sun covering the Eastern “Left bank” with its shine, while the “Right bank” behind my back is still wrapped up in the night completely. I was walking home from the bar through the city and over the Dnipro by walk that night ‘cause I’ve spent too much cash celebrating to order a taxi. Or I was just drunk enough to be willing to have a promenade instead of a boring drive, I don’t really remember )




Another early morning shot, taken at the heart of the city – Majdan Nezaležnosti. The Independece Square, which some of you have probably heard of. Though the Square is behind my back, I’m standing on the shortest and the widest central street of Europe – Khreščatyk. It was adorable to see it so tranquil and empty, without cars and bypassers at all, being accompanied by my mate roaming all night long after a magnificent concert of our favourite band of those good old years.






Time to search in your artistic soul. what music do you like? what you listen in your car or on your laptop when you are connected?

Another extremely difficult question to answer! I listen to really big amount of genres and I’m always in search. Let’s say I’ve found a really cool Canadian guy named Devin Townsend lately, let it be an illustration of what I love. Here’s a footage of him playing his “Kingdom” peace live at the studio:





I like this kind of sound, this kind of melody and rhythmic, and this powerful, difficult and proficient vocals.

The next song is absent in all my playlists, I never listen to it on a daily basis. Yet still, it’s one of my favorite songs of all time, made by one of my favorite bands – Type O Negative. This clip and these lyrics are extremely powerful, deep and heavy as for me. So I’d like to share it though I try not to listen to it too often.





The last thing: share a sentence that inspires you, a song, an image, a meme, whatever shows your current feelings and thoughts at present.
I’d like to share one video which would be a symbol of what I look for in this game, what I’ve found already and what I do believe I’ll find in the future. This is a video of one of my eFriends from Serbia – Bastovan Surcinski who studied Ukrainian at the University and now successfully masters it using eRepublik. Their band called “Otročenta” sings ethnic songs from different slavic cultures, Ukrainian too. But here’s my favourite of them all, one on a Serbian language.
I find it very inspiring ‘cause that’s what I’d never find without eRepublik, without just playing the game I like. Without just being myself and being interested in what interests me. And I do believe, you shall agree: this piece is God damn epic, so it hard not to be inspired by it!






THANK YOU, my darling!