Exploring the ancient graffiti of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv (photo report)
During the presentation, visitors were allowed to look through the volumes and view the results of 15 years…
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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…
Why was Ukraine’s Eurovision performance by Go_A so mesmerizing?
Contents The sacral solar cycle Is Shum a pagan god? The green fur coat See you, see you?…
The secret of Kateryna Pavlenko, Ukraine’s enigmatic Eurovision singer
Ukraine's electro-folklore band Go_A took fifth place at Eurovision-2021 with Shum, an archaic pagan song calling to awaken…
Ukraine’s Go_A makes it to Eurovision grand final with archaic pagan tune to awaken spring
For the first time in the history of Ukrainian participation in the contest, the band chose a song…
Liberal nationalism is the cure Ukraine needs to treat its post-colonial scars – Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk is one of Ukraine’s most published essayists. He is the president of the Ukrainian PEN-center and…
10 things everyone should know about Ukraine
The project tells stories of prominent Ukrainians, historical and cultural events that reshaped Ukraine's history of the 19th-21th…
New Lviv Museum showcases clandestine avant-garde art outlawed during Soviet era
How Modernism evolved in western Ukraine Although western Ukraine was occupied at different times during the turbulent years…
How an American expat pulled the Ukrainian art of Kobzaring back from the brink of extinction
The world knows Taras Shevchenko well. His collection of poems, Kobzar, first published in St. Petersburg in 1840…
Amazing living skyscraper designed by Ukrainian architects wins international competition
Guess Line Architects, an innovative architectural bureau in Lviv, recently won the prestigious international competition eVolo Skyscraper Competition,…
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…
Translate Ukraine: new grant programs open Ukrainian literature to the world
Translate Ukraine — a major step in cultural revival and diplomacy Throughout the 20th century, Ukrainian literature was…
Kyiv is becoming the world’s music video capital: 12 iconic clips
Most Ukrainian stars choose foreign locations to shoot their videos. In contrast, foreign directors choose Ukraine. Musicians from…
Putin’s “Trojan horse” in Ukraine — Babyn Yar and Holocaust memorialization
The Russian project is indeed a “Trojan horse”, as Yost Zissels, a Ukrainian dissident of Jewish origin and…
Ukraine’s post-Maidan cinema renaissance continues to blossom
One of the recent developments of the industry was Ukraine's participation in the European Film Market during the…
Ukraine Contemporary Music Festival to be streamed online on 5-7 March
New York, NY: From Friday, March 5 — Sunday, March 7, 2021, the second annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music…
Conductor Oksana Lyniv: we should be proud that names of prominent Ukrainians are part of the history of world music culture
On 30 November 2020, Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv was awarded the prestigious Oper! Awards in the category of…
Lesia Ukrainka: Teen idol, beacon of erudition & fervent advocate of European integration
Born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka in Novohrad-Volynsky, Zhytomyr Oblast in 1871, Lesia suffered immensely from her disease, travelling from…
Lesia Ukrainka’s “laughter through tears” and patriotism despite sorrow: poetic inspiration for a country at war
If reading Taras Shevchenko, the iconic Ukrainian serf-turned-national poet of the XIX century, is like striking a match…
Tapestry weaving through the eyes of artist Tetiana Vytiahlovska. Symbiosis of colour & texture
Zbruc sat down with Tetiana Vytiahlovska to discuss her work and the art of tapestry weaving - Light…