In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
Intangible Cultural Heritage, as defined by UNESCO, is transmitted and perceived by living people, so it remains alive for centuries. Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage contributes to the enrichment of cultural diversity and...
Prior to 1917, four-fifths of the territory of contemporary Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire for at least 150 years. Many Ukrainian intellectuals, as well as writers, artists, and composers of that time – even while striving...
Olesya says that as soon as she holds a needle in her hand and opens her thread box filled with vivid shades and colours, time seems to stop…. and she plunges into a world of fantasy and dreams. Olesya and embroidery have been...
Soldier of the 81st Airborne Brigade Volodymyr Boyprav, aerial observer Yevhen Yarylo, senior soldier of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade Serhiy Vikarchuk-Yevpatoriysky, volunteer and founder of the Veterano Service portal...
*(The “Shistdesiatnyky” (Sixties) movement was a literary generation that began publishing in the second half of the 1950s, and played an important role in popularizing samvydav (samizdat) literature and, most of all, in...
“Spadok” is a collection of short atmospheric videos, devoted to the national traditional costumes of various oblasts and raions of Ukraine. The researchers reveal the most typical items for every mentioned region and recreate...
By order of Moscow tsar Mikhail I, all copies of the Instructive Gospels by Kyryl Stavrovetsky were destroyed in 1627. Ukrainian texts were removed from all church books; it was prohibited to publish anything in Ukrainian. Under the reign...
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules that will restore Ukrainian spellings to what they were in 1919 before the Soviet regime “Russianized”...
The wedding lasted two days although in many villages celebrations continue for three full days. On Saturday, the family organized a more modern wedding. The bride wore a traditional white gown and the bridegroom – a suit. However,...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
