Polish-Ukrainian diplomatic spat hasn’t touched its memorial work in Lviv
A journalist is still tracking down the families of Ukraine’s Polish-descent dead, with consulate help.
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News about cultural life in Ukraine.
I came to be bored, then a Ukrainian poet’s reading hit me like a freight train
Victoria Day in Lviv marks the close of the fellowship named for writer Victoria Amelina. A skeptic’s account of an evening about home.
Ukraine’s traditional vyshyvanka embroidered shirt submitted for UNESCO cultural heritage recognition
The embroidered shirt has become one of the country’s strongest cultural symbols both at home and abroad.
Soviet power nearly erased Ukraine’s Easter. What’s being rebuilt exists almost nowhere else in Europe
Spring ritual games survived intact only in Ukraine, Lithuania, and parts of Serbia. This year, they were brought back from the dead in central Kyiv,
She left politics alone so long as it left her alone. Then the occupation came
Shevchenko Prize-winning novelist’s story of a woman caught between occupied Donbas and her home village in western Ukraine—published in English for the first time.
The Girl With The Teddy Bear—a 1928 Ukrainian novel that survived Stalin’s purges—reaches English after 97 years
Viktor Domontovych’s 1928 novel survived Stalin’s purges, Soviet censorship, and nearly a century of neglect. Euromaidan Press publishes an exclusive excerpt.
The war didn’t start in 2022. A documentary caught Russia grooming Ukrainian teenagers starting in 2007.
FSB-run youth clubs, a handler who dropped his mask, and the recruit who chose the wrong side — filmed over a decade.
Tchaikovsky out: Ukraine drops Russian imperial composer from top music academy name amid wartime decolonization push
A student-led push succeeded in cutting a Russian imperial label from Kyiv’s main conservatory as Ukraine distances itself from Moscow's influence.
Sviat Vechir: Ukraine’s ancient Christmas Eve and its twelve sacred dishes
The ritual is older than Christianity. The Soviets tried to kill it. It survived—and this year, once again, soldiers will observe it from the trenches
A Ukrainian Christmas music playlist from Euromaidan Press (2025 edition)
Try something new this holiday season with this selected collection of ancient and modern songs
Bolgrad uncorks defiance: wine festival returns as Russian missiles fly
After a six-year hiatus, southern Ukraine's largest wine festival returned on November 8 with air raid alerts, backup generators, and a wartime mission.
Colombian band trolls Russians with Ukrainian songs—300,000 followers watch the rage unfold
The trolling makes headlines—the hospital concerts save souls.
19 Ukrainian protest signs that are pure art (and also completely unhinged)
Ukraine's "cardboard revolution" proved teenagers can save democracy with markers, literary references, and perfectly placed f-bombs.
The masterpiece that never was: five lives behind Russia’s hidden cultural massacre
Five murdered Ukrainian artists. Thousands of unborn masterpieces. One methodical Russian campaign to erase a culture.
This Ukrainian genius shaped the Russian empire. His lost opera could now shatter Putin’s
Putin's imperial pageantry rests on an uncomfortable truth: the sound of Russian power was made by a Ukrainian whose identity Moscow is trying to erase.
Trump administration cuts funding for Ukrainian literature translations at Harvard
The termination threatens an anthology of Ukrainian-Jewish poetry that would counter Putin's narrative of Ukrainian cultural insignificance.
How Ukraine’s war wounded forge Europe’s most extraordinary sports league
Football legend Andrii Shevchenko’s bold vision transforms wounded veterans into competitive athletes, building Ukraine’s most unexpected sports league amid ongoing war.
Ukrainian who outshocked Schoenberg returns to wartime Lviv
The composer who made Schoenberg sound tame vanished at his peak in 1920. A century later, his lost piano concerto comes home to Ukraine as air raid sirens wail over Lviv.
The book Russia doesn’t want you to read: 20 wartime narratives by Euromaidan Press
Two years. Two journalists. Hundreds of voices – in an exclusive book. Our team uncovers the faces of Ukraine's resistance that Russia never expected. The book reveals how Ukrainian society has transformed from within during the largest interstate war of the 21st century.
The Soviets tried to steal Christmas. Ukrainians are taking it back
Each winter, Soviet authorities fought a war against Christmas. They lost to wheat berries, poppy seeds, and grandmothers who wouldn't forget.