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Saving Ukrainian culture, bard of the nation picks up a gun
“We often say about our [Ukrainian] art that we need to finally “stop crying” and create something optimistic.…
American expat reviving traditional Ukrainian art of kobzaring announces tour across Europe
Jurij Fedynskij announced his tour “Kobzaring across Europe” earlier this month on his Facebook page: “I’d like to…
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…
The destruction of Ukraine’s folk singers
In early December 1930, a Congress of the Folk Singers of Soviet Ukraine, with 337 delegates from different…