During the last few years, the Ukrainian film industry has experienced nothing short of a revolution. Following the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests, Ukraine has produced scores of quality documentaries, with Ukraine’s films now being shown...
It is not clear when or how the sign was removed. Former employees maintain that just a few days ago the plate bearing the inscription: “Library of Ukrainian Literature” was still visible on the building situated at 61 Trifonovskaya...
Ukrainian designer Vita Kin has introduced a most difficult term – Vyshyvanka, a traditional embroidery technique from Ukraine – among fashionistas and in the international fashion community. Her exquisite dresses have become real...
Volodymyr Batischev used to serve in the military. Ballroom dance was his favorite hobby. In his mid-50s, he received a second degree in it and made the hobby his work. Apart from ordinary dance classes, he has special ones – for the...
Read also: Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage Among the illegal activities in Crimea, the prosecutors mentioned the following suspected crimes: 7,500 archaeological artifacts now cannot be preserved after Russia’s Ministry of...
Kalyna Language Press has been publishing Ukrainian literature in translation since 2013 and its translator Steve Komarnyckyj published his first book of translations in 2011. Our work has been highly praised. The Guardian’s poetry...
– Ms. Andiyevska, what was your reaction when you found out that you’d won the Shevchenko Prize for Literature? – I’d like to thank all the kind and generous people in Ukraine who made it possible. I can’t remember them...
When Ukraine makes the international headlines, it is mostly related to the war in Donbas, anti-corruption battles, and political scandals. However, there are processes which despite all of this continue to go their own way, like...
In the 20th century, the Soviet regime was busy trying to erase this “national” element. The search of national “depth” was marginalized and then openly persecuted from the 1930s. After World War II, the nostalgia for past...
“Bortnytstvo” (wild-honey farming) was especially developed in regions situated within the Irpin, Sluch and Pripyat Rivers. The forests here are rich in pine trees, where bees like to build their nests. The honey was harvested and...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
