COFFEE BEANS & BEINGS / WAR OR NO WAR KYIV KIOSKS BOOMING

Yelyzaveta Holota, 18, serving an Americano at a Girkiy kiosk in Kyiv. 

GUEST BLOG / By Constant Meheut and Daria Mitiuk --Coffee shops and kiosks are everywhere in Ukraine’s capital, their popularity both an act of wartime defiance and a symbol of closer ties to the rest of Europe. 

Idealist Coffee House, Kyiv, Ukraine, Photos: Brendan Hoffman 

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 In Kyiv, Ukraine, coffee kiosks staffed by trained baristas serving tasty mochas for less than $2 have become a fixture of the streetscape.