The Christmas mission of the youngest: how Ukrainian scouts bring Peace Light to soldiers on the front-line
The Peace Light of Bethlehem is the symbolic fire inflamed at the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Then scouts…
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Hunger for Truth: Documentary about Canadian journalist who was first to report about Holodomor
Her 1932 articles were published in the Toronto newspaper The Evening Telegram and were found only a few…
Marta Pitchuk and her Motanka Art
The inanimate doll of previous centuries flows into the present and merges into one whole with a real…
Explosion of new Ukrainian music after introduction of protectionist language quotas
Why quotas were needed First and foremost, quotas for broadcasting music were introduced to protect the Ukrainian language.…
New book tells of sacred relics of Kyivan Rus appropriated by Russia
The icon of the Annunciation of Korsun, which was re-named the Annunciation of Ustyug in Russia, is an…
Gilded Scythian sword found on Mount Mamai in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Further excavation revealed two graves – a larger central burial pit and a smaller one. At first, the…
“Man with a Movie Camera”: One day of a 1920’s Ukrainian city in the early Soviet times
Dzyga Vertov and his collaborators, his brother Mikhail Kaufman and wife Yelizaveta Svilova, believed that film should not…
Hutsuliya – the vivid colours of Ukraine’s Carpathian mountaineers (Photos)
The Hutsuls, their lands and traditions have inspired many literary masterpieces. Carpathian regions inhabited by the Hutsuls have…
Grandfather’s hut turned into Hutsul art residence in heart of Carpathians
Read also: Ukrainian mosaic: five unique ethnic groups Situated in the village of Yavoriv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the location has…
Polyphony Project: discovering the largest online archive of traditional Ukrainian songs
Journalist Kateryna Bachynska reports on the creation of the largest online archive of traditional Ukrainian songs – Polifoniya…
The three Ukrainian women breathing new life into ancient musical traditions
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio…
Explore Ukrainian traditional culture with interactive site “Authentic Ukraine”
Intangible Cultural Heritage, as defined by UNESCO, is transmitted and perceived by living people, so it remains alive…
Recovering the forgotten names of the Ukrainian avant-garde
Prior to 1917, four-fifths of the territory of contemporary Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire for…
Olesya Sakhro & the art of thread painting
Olesya says that as soon as she holds a needle in her hand and opens her thread box…
English-language rehab theater for Ukrainian war veterans prepares for first performance
Soldier of the 81st Airborne Brigade Volodymyr Boyprav, aerial observer Yevhen Yarylo, senior soldier of the 56th Separate…
Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.
Traditional Ukrainian costumes from 17 regions reconstructed in video project
"Spadok" is a collection of short atmospheric videos, devoted to the national traditional costumes of various oblasts and…
Ukrainian writer & publisher: Language is the most important marker of national identity
By order of Moscow tsar Mikhail I, all copies of the Instructive Gospels by Kyryl Stavrovetsky were destroyed…
Traditional Hutsul wedding in the Carpathians (photo report)
The wedding lasted two days although in many villages celebrations continue for three full days. On Saturday, the…
900-year-old relic found under church floor in Busk, Lviv Oblast
Engolpions* appeared in Kyivan Rus during the expansion of Christianity. The relics of saints or other sacred things…