Three years after sham referendums in Donbas, no Russian Spring
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal "referendums" were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk…
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Volodymyr Vyatrovych: Hopefully Ukraine will soon commemorate Victory Day on May 8
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment…
Valentyn Kovalsky: a story of life, war and death
His friend Valeriy Lohinov, call sign “Askold”, remembers him fondly: “Valentyn enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
Contents The myth of May 9The myth of the great victory of the Soviet peopleBrezhnev, L. The Great Victory of…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
Know Kyiv like a local. Some insights for Eurovision visitors
Kyiv has already opened its doors for tourists coming to see the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. We at…
Fascinating History of Kyiv Trams: The Lifeblood of the Ukrainian Capital
Comfortable, safe, eco-friendly, high-speed and even … romantic. All this can be said about Kyiv trams. Some people commute…
Moving poem by Yuliya, wife of Oleksandr Korinkov, prisoner in the “DNR”
A raven croaks its dreary song above the man sitting in darkness, A darkness covered in sorrow, even…
Ukrainian graffiti artists create visual magic on city walls
The artists work on giant walls, suspended on elevation platforms, splashing liters of paint over city walls. Their…
Ecological disaster in Ukraine caused by Moscow’s invasion spreads into Russia, experts say
Just as was the case with the Chornobyl accident 25 years ago last month, the environmental damage caused…
Would shift to Latin script liberate Ukrainian or destroy it?
Even though Ukrainian has a stronger historical claim to the Cyrillic alphabet than does Russian and even though…
Johann Georg Pinsel: the Michelangelo from Lviv
Johann Georg Pinsel was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor of German or Czech origin who lived and worked in Lviv,…
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone to be Home to Safe Solar Power
April 26th will be the 31st anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. For that time, most of the…
Biogas plant opens in frontline Volnovakha this year
The first biogas plant in Eastern Ukraine is set to open this year in Volnovakha, a government-controlled half-way…
Moscow Patriarchate taking control over property of its parishes in Ukraine to block them from leaving
Faced with a rising tide of parishes in Ukraine whose members have voted to transfer their allegiance to…
Slavutych: the town born from the Chornobyl nuclear disaster
Ukraine’s youngest town appeared on the map only 30 years ago, just 50 kilometers from the site of…
Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution: remembering stories of Heavenly Hundred
Vivica Williams, UATV correspondent: Paul and I met on the pedestrian bridge overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square,…
What makes a man betray his country? Donbas native tells in novel of Europe’s forgotten war
What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the…
Iron will and steel muscles: Invictus Games selection held in Kyiv (photo report)
The Invictus Games is an international paralympic-style multi-sport event, created by Britain's Prince Harry, in which wounded, injured or sick…
Kyiv opens innovative park to boost startups and technologies
The first innovative city, a space with infrastructure for work and living for representatives of innovative businesses, has…