Nikita Stepanov

Open AccessFeature PaperArticle by 1, 1,*, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 and 1 1 Laboratory of Bulk Nanostructured Materials, Belgorod State University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia 2 College of Materials, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Metals 2023, 13(11), 1812; https://doi.org/10.3390/met13111812 (registering DOI) Received: 4 October 2023 / Revised: 20 October 2023 / Accepted: 25 October 2023 / Published: 27 October 2023 1.

As traditionally happens at the beginning of winter, the temperature drops but passions rise in Ukrainian politics. In a political system with a long break between the Western Christmas on December 25 through to the Orthodox New Year on January 14 and then more holidays in May stretching long into the summer as Rada deputies head off glamorous international holidays (President Petro Poroshenko went to the Maldives last year).