Ukraine’s iconic Antonov AN-225 Mriya is the biggest plane in the world. Built in 1988, it was designed to carry space rocket engines for the USSR’s space program. Mriya, which translates to “dream” in Ukrainian, is...
At first glance, it looks like a beet. But according to its breeders, the deep color is where the similarities end. In fact, it’s a new national Ukrainian product with Peruvian roots. There are two varieties. Breeders call the dark...
Cisco has concluded its Ukraine Recharge IT contest, where 500 Ukrainian teams competed for prizes and recognition, but only four winners were declared. The winning projects were guaranteed entry to the real market. The grand winner was...
Two young men from Lviv, Anton Skrypnyk and Roman Savchenko, have invented a Smart Travel Cup that can analyze any liquid. The Cup measures the level of salt, pH, nitrates, and the temperature relationship of these elements. The founders...
Two drones were recently presented to Ukrainian military personnel. They were prepared and developed by professors and students of Vinnytsa National Technical University. The drones will undergo state inspection at the Chernihiv training...
2015 saw many changes in the role played by start-ups and joint venture investors in the Ukrainian financial marketplace. According to the CEO of the GrowthUP Group, Denis Dovgopolyi, 2015 ended as the best year yet for these...
Usually, any comparison between Ukraine with the developed world are dismal: our GDP is smaller; corruption is more rampant—to be found everywhere from the plumber to the Prime Minister; the standard of living is near the bottom. How...
Eduard was born in Soviet Russia to a family of Ukrainian soldiers. After school he moved to Fastiv, a city in Ukraine’s Kyiv Oblast. At the age of 12, Mr. Rudnyk became interested in cars, only to construct his first vehicle in 1983...
The Phoenix Wings charitable organization sent another batch of uniforms, VARAN-ZSU Varan-Armed Forces of Ukraine to the soldiers of the 79th separate air-mobile brigade on Saturday, 25 July 2015. According to the coordinator of the...
Some time ago, the topic of the Paris Air Show came up while I was hanging out with two American friends of mine. One of them takes particular interest in technology, engineering, and the like, so I asked him if he had yet seen the...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
