They are dresses of different styles and colors. Our great-grandmothers wore them on weekdays and holidays. Experts say that an embroidered dress or blouse could tell a lot about its owner. Ukrainian embroidery is not just a dress or a...
On 18 May 2017, Ukrainians all over the world celebrated the day of the national embroidered shirt, or Vyshyvanka. The event, celebrated on the third Thursday of May, has turned into a global cultural diplomacy opportunity for the numerous...
Several thousand people wearing Ukrainian ethnic costumes joined the “Vyshyvanka Mega-March” organized for the Day of Kyiv in the country’s capital city. After the Russian military aggression in Crimea and the Donbas, the...
During the last couple of years, vyshyvanka in Ukraine has become apparently fashionable. You can meet people wearing clothes with ethnic elements not only on the Independence Day or other national holidays; some put on embroidered shirts...
Something Ukrainian: encrypted charms in our national costumes, one of the oldest currencies in the world, mellow sounds of the Ukrainian Carpathians and the brilliant perfection of Scythian treasures. Number 5: HRYVNIA Hryvnia – the...
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Ukraine recently adopted a decree to extend sanctions to Russian IT companies, effectively banning popular social networks and services like VKontakte, Odnoklasniki, and Yandex in Ukraine. There are many arguments pro et contra. Do you support the ban?
Conflict Context To start, the Euromaidan—the initial flashpoint from which armed conflict became possible—was not simply a response to the failures of the Orange Revolution in 2004, but a larger movement against structural failures...
