THE ORIGINS Lyricized in songs and shrouded in legends, the Ukrainian wreath has a centuries-long history. The wreath as such was first mentioned during the Sumerian era (12th – 3rd centuries B.C.) The descendants of the Sumerians...
Victims of the Russian “police of thought” On 2 October, masked Russian security officers raided the house of Renat Suleymanov, the father of three daughters. They took him away in a car with hidden license plates. On the same day,...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
The maximum amount of financial support offered by this programme amounts to $18,800. Half of the amount is allocated by the regional budget, and half is allocated by the local territorial community or district authorities from the local...
The west-Ukrainian city of Lviv could very well be a world record-setter by the number of lions on its streets. The local historian Yuriy Haida with a group of conspirators counted 4,500 of them in 2012, claiming that Lviv deserves a place...
“When I looked through my son’s textbooks, I was surprised to see how realistically Polish kings and Russian tsars were portrayed. However, there were very few images of Ukrainian Hetmans, and often articles about them were just...
The athletes competing in the Invictus Games are proving that they are stronger than their wounds. Their strength of spirit, forged on the battle field, is the source of their motivation. “Our soldiers aren’t just soldiers....
Ukrainian churches have been gaining in recent years as ever more people have chosen to leave the parishes of the Moscow Patriarchal Church in that country, Chaplain Mykola Medynskyi says; but if the Ukrainian government were to ban the...
His heart and soul are still over there, far away, with the war… But, the body has returned home. At first, the war inside fades slowly, retreating layer by layer, piece by piece … Slowly, very slowly, yesterday’s soldier...
FROM SPRING TO WINTER – WITH HOE AND PICKAXE IN HANDS In spring, Vasyl sets out early in the morning, swinging his pick-axe to dig up the rocky soil, sometimes cluttered with remnants of concrete and asphalt. He removes bushes and...
Four years since the start of its ‘Euromaidan’ revolution, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as an independent and viable state. But this report is not only about Ukraine’s struggle to hold together and resist Russia’s...
