Yuliia Petrenko and Maria Natalich, Trust but Check, 2023.

Only 9% of almost one and a half thousand global companies have left the Russian market since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. In this list are companies like Nestle, Toblerone, Corona, Nescafe. The total annual turnover of these 1200+ companies in russia is almost 290 billion dollars. This is a fifth of the GDP of the russian federation. Their passive inaction is also a crime. By replenishing the russian budget with billions of dollars, they prevent a quick and proper end to the war.

The goal of our project is to make people aware of those companies and let them do a conscious choice when doing groceries. In our time it's very important to know how you can influence even in such small steps.

To use the filter you need to point a camera on your phone to a product and the program will detect companies that are still cooperating with russia. In this way you can easily be informed and make a choice that can make a change.