The book Do you know who deciphered the Mayan script? Who designed the flight path to the moon? Who flipped ballet fashion and invented the modern ballet tutu? Travelbook Ukraine offers 1,200 outstanding facts about Ukraine and Ukrainians....
Some trends in the publishing industry: Ukrainian is becoming the preferred language for publications; Ukraine is starting to see revenue from the export of its cultural offerings The Ukrainian Book Institute has researched publishing in...
The story of Vasyl Stus finally gained popularity in Ukraine, when film and books on his life appeared Although much delayed, the story of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus finally gained its proper due, when the biographical novel...
Why quotas were needed First and foremost, quotas for broadcasting music were introduced to protect the Ukrainian language. The reason was simple — the Russian-language music audience amounts to 200 million worldwide, while the...
The icon of the Annunciation of Korsun, which was re-named the Annunciation of Ustyug in Russia, is an ancient pre-Mongolian icon from the Kyivan Rus era. Different sources say it was created around 1022 in either Kyiv or Korsun (modern...
Dzyga Vertov and his collaborators, his brother Mikhail Kaufman and wife Yelizaveta Svilova, believed that film should not only show reality as it was but delve deeper into the art form to reveal the varied dimensions of life. Man with a...
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...
For director Rosa Sarkisian, it’s her first experiment with British drama. She has long dreamed of staging a play based on the work of English playright Sarah Kane. Sarkisian was finally able to obtain the legal right to do so by taking...
To no one’s surprise, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine has alienated Ukrainians politically from the former imperial center; but more important but less noticed, it is increasingly leading them to turn away from Russia culturally, a...
Valentyna Deka’s whole life revolves around Petrykivka paintings. Deka even got her family involved in this unique Ukrainian paintings. The ornamental folk art is on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2013....
Two steps forward and one step back – the essence of Russian-made plan for Ukraine “Twelve Steps” is written precisely according to the old Lenin schematic, with some revisions. Moscow proposes ideas “Toward Greater Security”...
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