Ukraine’s 30: Prominent Ukrainians who changed the country and the world. Part 4: Politics
On August 24, 2021, Ukrainians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, a landmark date in…
Ukraine’s 30: prominent Ukrainians who changed the country and the world. Part 3: Literature
On August 24, 2021, Ukrainians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, a landmark date in…
Ukraine’s 30: Prominent Ukrainians who changed the country and the world. Part 2: Science
On August 24, 2021, Ukrainians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, a landmark date in…
Ukraine’s 30: prominent Ukrainians who changed the country and the world. Part 1: Culture
On August 24, 2021, Ukrainians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, a landmark date in…
Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, “Ukrainian Vivian Maier,” returns to the limelight
Paraska’s creative output includes more than 4,000 photographs and about 500 books. She wrote many of her…
How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…
Sensational archaeological find uncovers “Ukrainian Stonehenge” in eastern Ukraine
There are numerous kurgans scattered throughout eastern and southern Ukraine and archaeologists and historians are worried that, in…
“Here I see God”: Omelian Kovch, the Ukrainian priest who saved hundreds of Jews & died in Majdanek concentration camp
On January 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed Omelian Kovch a “Righteous of Ukraine”. Until his…
How a free-spirited country girl from Ukraine became an intrepid adventuress & 1930s travel blogger
If Instagram, YouTube, and other social media had existed in the 1930s, Sofiya Yablonska would have gathered the…
Memorial to Austrian Prince Vasyl Vyshyvany inaugurated in Kyiv
A bust of Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg-Lothringen (Vasyl Vyshyvany), colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Sichovi Striltsi) and…
Crimean Tatars’ return from deportation documented by project on Ukraine’s wild 90’s | WATCH ONLINE
The long way home: deportation and return of Crimean Tatars to their Homeland The documentary, aired by Ukraine’s…
Vasyl Vyshyvany: the Habsburg prince who chose Ukraine
The great Habsburg of Ukrainian history was born on February 10, 1895 on the island of Lošinj (present-day…
Reviving Ukrainian cuisine. It’s all about decommunization, identity & rethinking Ukraine’s past, say culinary experts
“Should Ukrainian cuisine be decommunized?” this question was recently raised by PostEat, an online gastronomic journal, which informs…
Myroslav Irchan. He returned to Ukraine from Canada, only to be executed by the NKVD
Myroslav Irchan’s real name was Andriy Babiuk. He was born into a poor peasant family in the village…