Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on September 4, 1924. In the 1930s, Soviet authorities executed his father (who was fully rehabilitated later on), and his...
Yakutovych was born in an artistic family in Kyiv in 1952. His father, Heorhiy Yakutovych was an outstanding Ukrainian graphic artist, also known for his work in the cinema, including Serhiy Paradzhanov’s legendary film – Shadows...
The war in Ukraine is no longer regularly reported in western media; when it is, the focus is generally on military activity or the breaking of the Minsk agreements. What is often neglected is the network of civil society volunteers that...
His friend Valeriy Lohinov, call sign “Askold”, remembers him fondly: “Valentyn enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and served in the Sniper Corps of the 95th Mobile Division. He was young, healthy and happy… a very cheerful...
A raven croaks its dreary song above the man sitting in darkness, A darkness covered in sorrow, even in his troubled dreams… No hope, torn by tears and grief, the man is slowly dying… A hero, a son of Ukraine – but forgotten and...
LEMKOS According to one version, Lemko ancestors were the ancient tribes of White Croats who lived on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. The number of Lemkos on territories of pre-war Poland was estimated between 100,000 and...
In particular, El Pais notes that Zozulya has never used Nazi symbols, but on the contrary, has demonstrated patriotic sentiment and is fully committed to the idea that military action is needed to return the Donbas to Ukraine....
After dinner, children drive the kutya symbolically away from the house. They run outside, beat a chosen corner of their home with long sticks and chant rhymes honouring kutya and the didukh. As night falls, the didukh is carried out of...
According to Sergei Krivenko, board member of the International Memorial Society, Russian law enforcement agencies believe that the photos of Dmitriev’s granddaughter and daughter may be child pornography that he intended to disseminate...
Anna Popovych was born in the village of Zelena, Nadvinyansky Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on May 29, 1925. During the interwar period, most of the territory of today’s Western Ukraine belonged to the Second Polish Republic. The...
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Is Poroshenko just like Yanukovych?
It's been three years since the election of Petro Poroshenko as President of Ukraine. Is he following in Yanukovych's footsteps? There are many reasons many arguments for and against. that statement. What do you think?
On 14 August 2017, the New York Times published an article by Pulitzer winning journalists William Broad and David E. Sanger stating that North Korea’s recent ballistic missile success is explained by black market purchases of rocket...
