How Modernism evolved in western Ukraine Although western Ukraine was occupied at different times during the turbulent years of the early 20th century – alternately by Austria-Hungary, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the Bolsheviks –...
Of course, at that time in Polish-ruled Western Ukraine, the Lviv night-club scene was dominated by Polish jazz bands. Lvivers danced to the music of Warsaw composers, such as Tadeusz Faliszewski, Henryk Wars and many others, as well as...
The Lviv Christmas Fair (Yarmarok) gathers each year more than 100 craftsmen in 100 wooden shops at two city locations: the historical Rynok square and the main Svoboda tavenue. Some sell different kinds of honey, nuts in honey, natural...
What if a girl had an Instagram account during the Holocaust? The account Eva.Stories on the popular social network attempts to make one of the most tragic episodes in human history closer to the social media generation by showing it...
The Ukrainian club included younger members and coaches of children’s teams. The Canadian team had one female member, an employee of the CAF press service. The Canadian soldiers wore hockey shirts, but standard hockey pants were replaced...
– What prompted Emperor Karl I to issue a manifesto proclaiming decentralization and the creation of a confederation? – Franz Joseph, who embodied the golden age of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, had died several years before,...
Hordiy Starukh was only 3 years old when his mother took him to a concert where he heard a hurdy-gurdy for the first time. When he decided to buy one during his student years, the rare instrument turned out to be well beyond what a student...
Indonesian Ambassador to Ukraine Prof. Dr. Yuddy Chrisnandi is currently boosting Indonesian culture in Ukraine. In March, he visited Lviv. The goal was to explore any potential of sister city programs and to introduce...
Three years after the beginning of the de facto war in Donbas, Ukrainians are starting to fix the fundamental problems in society which made the war possible. Some of these problems were the stereotypes of Ukrainians living in different...
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...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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