Learning Ukrainian online has become easier, now that the government is offering a free online course “SpeakUkrainian.” The course is an initiative arising from the Ukrainian Ministry of Information Policy. The front page provides this...
By order of Moscow tsar Mikhail I, all copies of the Instructive Gospels by Kyryl Stavrovetsky were destroyed in 1627. Ukrainian texts were removed from all church books; it was prohibited to publish anything in Ukrainian. Under the reign...
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules that will restore Ukrainian spellings to what they were in 1919 before the Soviet regime “Russianized”...
Forgive us, Ukrainians, for sending our sons and brothers to be wounded and killed in the war every day, and this interferes with your business plans. Sorry for having such a neighbour, who seized parts of our country, shot down your plane...
Immediately after the fire, Moscow “scholars” began rewriting the historical chronicle of the ancient monastery in full compliance with the interests of the newly-proclaimed Russian Empire (it was in 1721 that that Peter I decided to...
– 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...
Yuriy Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and translator, believes that the attack on the Euromaidan activist is not the first example of discrimination against the Ukrainian language: “First, I’m struck by the fact that both...
When it comes to increasing the use of the Ukrainian language in society, there were a few more reasons for a positive than a negative review in 2017. Progress is taking place, but at a glacial pace — the full implementation of the...
Each time we do a review of any given year, we try to determine the number of successes, failures, “betrayals,”‘ and victories. But when we discuss Ukraine, this approach is fundamentally wrong. On the one hand, our...
Ukraine wanted to receive the expert conclusion of the Venice Commission first of all to neutralize the political concerns of its neighbors, namely – Hungary and Romania. The Hungarian government was outraged by Article 7 of the new...
“Draw your own candidate” The first striking fact is that, according to Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Fund “Democratic Initiatives,” 37% of Zelenskyi’s electorate support Ukraine’s membership in NATO while another 37%...
