Special Olympics: Ukraine takes a scientific approach
Special Olympics Ukraine is actively involved in scientific research to help people with intellectual disabilities and is the…
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News about cultural life in Ukraine.
Ukraine remembers the “forgotten” Holocaust victims
Five memorials for Holocaust victims are being dedicated in western Ukraine. They are intended to pay respect to…
Vote online for the winner of the #LetMyPeopleGo contest
The contest for a remake of the lyrics to the famous spiritual Let My People Go launched by…
#FreeSavchenko Space Odyssey episode one released: More guards for Savchenko
The first episode of the video series aiming to bring Nadiya Savchenko's plight to a wider audience has…
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine dividing Ukrainian and Russian baptists
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in Ukraine’s Donbas has left many Ukrainian Baptist communities in a difficult…
Night Serenades: MFA Concert for Ukraine’s political prisoners in Russia
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that the National Chamber Ensemble "Kyiv Soloists" will hold a classical…
De-Sovietization in Ukraine: 871 cities, towns and villages freeing their names from the Soviet legacy
Communities of 871 Ukrainian cities, towns and villages will give them new names or return to their historical…
Two major non-Moscow Ukrainian Orthodox churches move toward unity
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), two of…
#FreeSavchenko Star Wars remake to bring Savchenko’s plight to wider audience
Princess Nadiya Savchenko has been kidnapped from the planet "Ukraineey." by the Ruskii Empire With opposition growing against…
Vyshyvanka Day 100 years ago and today: interactive map of Ukrainian embroidered shirts
On 21 May 2015, Ukrainians celebrated Vyshyvanka Day. This is a day when people in Ukraine and abroad…
Legend of the vyshyvanka (traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt)
Recorded by I.M. Rozvadovsky (born 1918) in Terebovlia in 1978 There was a time when people began falling…
Expert: Ukraine must evolve from Russian to Western approach to Islamic communities
Ukraine is still living with the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) system the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union…
Photo and idea contest: Open Ukraine for the World. Deadline 30 May 2015
Victor Migalchan together with Vladimir and Tatiana Mikhailovy Studio have launched the photo project, Open Ukraine for the World…
Social videos on victory over Nazism unite generations in Ukraine
We Remember. We admire. We will prevail. Information Resistance group with the assistance from Ukrainian National Guard, National…
Ukraine releases own version of Ballad of the Green Berets
In 1966, the song “Ballad of the Green Berets” was the No. 1 hit for many weeks on…
Communism, Nazism to be banned in Ukraine?
It looks like Ukraine following the example of many countries which have also suffered the consequences of totalitarian…
“Son of Crimea”: documentary tells of struggle of Crimean Tatars to return to homeland. Watch online
Until recently, little was known about the Crimean Tatars or their historic homeland, Crimea. These turkic people’s history…
Okean Elzy delivers a night of Ukrainian culture to New York
Slava Vakarchuk is the leader of Okean Elzy, a famous Ukrainian rock band. He is often called…
Ukraine divided less between “east” and “west” than between “city” and “village”
Most discussions about divisions in Ukraine focus either on the differences of "east" and "west" or on those…
One year anniversary of Euromaidan revolution, a 360 degree Virtual Reality tour of Maidan is launched on Google Play
360 degree images of Maidan Square that were captured during the time of unrest, on Feb. 25, 2014,…