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Johann Georg Pinsel: the Michelangelo from Lviv
Johann Georg Pinsel was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor of German or Czech origin who lived and worked in Lviv,…
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone to be Home to Safe Solar Power
April 26th will be the 31st anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. For that time, most of the…
Biogas plant opens in frontline Volnovakha this year
The first biogas plant in Eastern Ukraine is set to open this year in Volnovakha, a government-controlled half-way…
Moscow Patriarchate taking control over property of its parishes in Ukraine to block them from leaving
Faced with a rising tide of parishes in Ukraine whose members have voted to transfer their allegiance to…
Slavutych: the town born from the Chornobyl nuclear disaster
Ukraine’s youngest town appeared on the map only 30 years ago, just 50 kilometers from the site of…
Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution: remembering stories of Heavenly Hundred
Vivica Williams, UATV correspondent: Paul and I met on the pedestrian bridge overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square,…
What makes a man betray his country? Donbas native tells in novel of Europe’s forgotten war
What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the…
Iron will and steel muscles: Invictus Games selection held in Kyiv (photo report)
The Invictus Games is an international paralympic-style multi-sport event, created by Britain’s Prince Harry, in which wounded, injured or sick…
Kyiv opens innovative park to boost startups and technologies
The first innovative city, a space with infrastructure for work and living for representatives of innovative businesses, has…
Results of French presidential elections will shape Ukraine’s future in Europe
So the first question is let’s have a quick recap of all the big candidates positioned towards Europe.…
Liudmyla Hlondar: My brother, hostage in “DNR” for 2 years, says only hope is prayer
What was said at the meetings? Were any concrete decisions made? We’ve been fighting long and hard…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 3: The way to European catastrophe
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler…
For all its problems, Ukraine now easternmost of Western countries rather westernmost of Eastern ones
Rudyard Kipling famously observed that “the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks his shirt in. As…
Paskas and Easter convoy for soldiers in Donbas war zone blessed in Kyiv (photo gallery)
The Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) Filaret blessed Easter eggs (krashanky) and paskas (Easter…
Making Ukraine mono-ethnic – Putin’s greatest achievement and most fateful failure
Ninety-two percent of Ukrainian citizens now consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, an unprecedented figure that is the product of…
The many designs of traditional Ukrainian pysanka Easter eggs, by region
For Easter, Ukrainians make pysanky – colorful eggs dyed in the batik method. It’s a tradition that goes back…
Doctors fighting for life of Ihor Halushka, “Angel of Instytutska”
Doctor Serhiy Ryzhenko and his devoted medical team have operated several times on Ihor who is still in…
Andrey Zubov: Russia will one day be a normal country
Professor Andrey Zubov was one of the two speakers from Russia at the 10th Kyiv Security Forum which…
Ukrainian schoolgirls win Mathematics Olympiad for third time
The winning team: Olha Shevchenko (Grade 11, Kharkiv, Gymnasium No.45); Alina Harbuzova (Grade 10, Kharkiv, Physics and Mathematics…
Ukraine may be on the doorstep of an electro-cars revolution
Amid post-revolution transformations, ongoing fight against corruption and the de facto war in Donbas, there is still a…