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On Sep. 19, Rost Tatomyr, a Lviv-based Facebook user, asked his “international friends” to name “the most popular stereotypes about Ukraine”.

“Or just impression which is very common in your country. Feel free to offend me 🙂 It’s just for one of my small graphic project. Thank you,” he wrote.

A few people responded, and five days later, on Sep. 24, Tatomyr presented a set of nine Yes-butno items, which went viral on the Ukrainian segment of Facebook right away (more than 1,265 ‘likes’ and 4,080 shares in the first 12 hours since posting.

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