German singer Marlaine Maas is the first artist to perform a cover of the anthem of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen “Oh in the Meadow a Red Kalyna” in other languages. Along with the original Ukrainian version, she sang it in...
Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has tried to obliterate Crimea’s diverse cultural heritage. But Crimean history can not be erased. It dates from the earliest antiquity and involves many civilizations through time. Different...
1. Grammarly, a writing assistant When asked about his life purpose, Grammarly co-founder Dmytro Lider says, “It is the implementation of one’s own values through actions… I focus not on delivering results but on...
Paraska’s creative output includes more than 4,000 photographs and about 500 books. She wrote many of her manuscripts in the Hutsul dialect, but very few were published during her lifetime. She did not limit herself to...
Four Ukrainian rocket scientists (three of whom survived Soviet repressions) It is telling that all of the top-four Ukrainian rocket scientists of the Soviet era were impacted by Soviet repressions. One paid with his life. Two central...
Read also: The secret of Kateryna Pavlenko, Ukraine’s enigmatic Eurovision singer How Ukrainian folk became popular Polyphonic folk singing was always a powerful tradition of Ukrainian melos. Ukrainian composers have found...
In the 18th century, Ukraine had the potential to become the European equivalent of the United States in North America. However, given its political culture and geographical location, that happened only partially as the autonomous...
On January 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed Omelian Kovch a “Righteous of Ukraine”. Until his beatification by Pope John Paul II in Lviv on June 27, 2001, Fr. Omelian Kovch was virtually unknown, but today...
In its long history, Ukraine went through periods of poverty and glory, repressions and renaissance, stagnation and battle. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture is a project called to observe how all this is captured in the...
If Instagram, YouTube, and other social media had existed in the 1930s, Sofiya Yablonska would have gathered the largest number of followers and become an instant hit as a travel blogger. This spectacular adventuress would have posted...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
