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Cultural diplomacy in a festive mood: celebrations Ukrainian style | #FormulaOfAction
New Year and Christmas holidays are not only a time to celebrate, but also a chance to popularize…
Dissident artist Alla Horska murdered 45 years ago
Ukrainian artist Alla Horska was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her father-in-law’s apartment in Vasilkiv, Kyiv oblast…
Euromaidan revolution now commemorated in symphonic piece by American composer
[quote style=”boxed”]I wrote “In Memoriam: Maidan” in the spring of 2015 to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people…
Lviv declared UNESCO City of Literature
Lviv has been named “UNESCO City of Literature”. 47 cities from 33 countries have joined the UNESCO Creative…
UNESCO ranks Ukraine’s avant-garde film Zemlya among world’s five greatest masterpieces – watch it here
During a news briefing, Vlada Lytovchenko, Chairperson of the International Fund for Cultural Cooperation announced that UNESCO has…
Ukraine has everything to become great, it just needs time – Daniel Christian
Euromaidan Press recently connected with Daniel Christian, who made this tribute song for Ukraine, now popular on radio…
Jewish Quarter in Lviv crumbling before our eyes…
Lviv (western Ukraine) is proceeding to implement the Synagogue Area Project in the old Jewish Quarter where only…
Ukrainian ethnic jewelry and ornaments
Ukrainian ornaments have always had two functions – ensure protection (oberih) and information. Amulets and ritual jewelry –…
Top five national symbols of Ukraine
Something Ukrainian: encrypted charms in our national costumes, one of the oldest currencies in the world, mellow sounds…
New documentary “A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars” tells the history of the persecuted nation
The film will be shown at Docs for Sale at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). When…
Let the songbird out of the cage – vote for Ukrainian literature
Vote online for the only Ukrainian book ever awarded a PEN award at the PEN World Bookshelf contest. [quote…
The National Anthem of Ukraine translated to English
The Ukrainian anthem has arguably become Ukraine’s most popular piece of music from the times of the Euromaidan Revolution…
Soldiers of Dnipro-1 Battalion go back to school to improve their Ukrainian language
Special Ukrainian language courses have started for soldiers at the military headquarters of the Dnipro-1 Battalion in Dnipropetrovsk.…
Sergey Loznitsa’s “Maidan” documentary wins grand prize at International human rights festival
The documentary Maidan, depicting the events of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, has won the grand prize at the Nuremberg International…
Andrew Tkach’s film “Generation Maidan” and the cinematic propaganda war
This article by Adrian Bryttan first appeared in “The Ukrainian Weekly”, September 6, 2015 Why is it so…
A West side story: how Euromaidan changed the culture of a small Ukrainian city
War, Crimea, Oligarchs, Right Sector. Consuming mainstream European news, what else could one possibly expect from an article dealing…
For Russians, Ukraine is a South Korea to Russia’s North, Zhordan says
In Soviet times, “there was no other Russian country with an alternative system” to which Russians could go…
Time for a New Ukrainian Cinema
Julia moved to Kyiv to go to school. She left her home in western Ukraine to attend a…
Nova Europa uncovers Ukraine as a tourism do-it-destination
“If you want to go somewhere on a holiday hotel vacation, then Türkiye or western Europe will have better service,…
Nadiya Savchenko featured in H.C.Andersen fan fiction book as “Steadfast Tin Soldier”
A fan fiction book dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen has a chapter dedicated to Nadiya Savchenko titled “The steadfast…