Christina says it is cheaper to run a business in Ukraine, calling it the land of opportunities: The land was calling me, I guess. I love working with the soil. For me, work is the most important thing; that’s why I moved here. Wherever I work and...
The legal system of the Zaporozhian Host (Hetmanate Ukraine) of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries combined Slavonic principalities, written and oral social rules and norms of Ukraine-Rus’, nomadic and Orthodox beliefs and canons gave birth to a tru...
New York, NY: From Friday, March 5 — Sunday, March 7, 2021, the second annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival will explore the role of music in contemporary Ukrainian culture and politics through lively presentations and performances under t...
The world frequently associates Ukraine with negative things – war, corruption, Chornobyl, and other matters that form a negative image of the country and undermine trust as well as respect to it. Citizens themselves often perceive their sta...
Russia’s seven-year hybrid war against Ukraine has resulted in not only the lawless seizure of Crimea and eastern Ukraine but the lawless imprisonment of Ukrainian citizens based on fabricated charges. Called the “Ukrainian political p...
KINDRAT Author: Vasyl Shkliar “Bless me, Father, for I am about to die for Ukraine,” he said quietly, but firmly. January 9, 2014. Vasyl Kindratsky had left the Kyiv Maidan and was now home in his native Mykolayiv, Lviv Oblast just in time for Chr...
On 2 February, the Ukrainian president enacted a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to sanction MP Taras Kozak and his national TV channels ZIK, 112, and NewsOne for five years. Kozak is a legislator from the major openly...
The Kremlin and Ukraine’s oligarchs as allies in making Ukraine fail One of the speakers at that forum, Olena Halushka of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre in Kyiv, said that today, despite achieving “tremendous progress” on its path of demo...
Life is tough when the whole world is pitted against you, or when you think that it is. This week, the disinformation reflects this mood, radiated by the pro-Kremlin media. Let’s begin with the coverage of the Davos Forum. According to pro-K...
On 30 November 2020, Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv was awarded the prestigious Oper! Awards in the category of Best Conductor, founded by the opera magazine Oper! Das Magazin. Hard work both in Ukraine and worldwide is behind the award. Represe...
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) declared that it would suspend the Russian delegation’s voting rights. PACE announced that Russia’s delegation would a...
Born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka in Novohrad-Volynsky, Zhytomyr Oblast in 1871, Lesia suffered immensely from her disease, travelling from spa resorts to sanatoriums in search of relief from the chronic pain caused by bone tuberculosis. Despite ...
In an interview with Le Temps, Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya says that at present, the Belarusian opposition has “lost the streets” and cannot withstand the force being used by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka but will recover its position in the sp...
On 23 February, the Primorsky Court of Odesa ruled to imprison Serhiy Sternenko, a civic activist from the south-Ukrainian city and one of the greatest enemies of the local authorities, for 7 years and three months and to seize half of his propert...
If reading Taras Shevchenko is like striking a match in a dark room filled with explosives, as the life-changing effect of his poetry has been described, then reading Lesia Ukrainka is like finding a precious pearl, hiding it for safety, and then ...
For the first time in GoCamp’s history, there were volunteers from all the continents, except of course Antarctica. Due to the online format, volunteers from such faraway countries as Jamaica, El Salvador, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Indones...
Oligarchs and low standards of living: two sides of the same coin One striking feature of modern Ukraine is not just the ongoing influence in public life of such figures as Akhmetov and Kolomoiskyi, but also the resilience of the oligarchy as an i...
This was a busy week for the pro-Kremlin media: besides fending off imaginary “Anglo-Saxon” provocations and disclosing evil globalist plots involving the Pope, it had to deal with trouble closer to home. Following the brutal crackdown of protests...
Danya’s Choice Author: Yuliya Iliukha His dream was to get a puppy. A typical wish for a child – to have a dog as a best friend and faithful companion for play and protection. He convinced his parents and together, they even decided on a bre...
After the Euromaidan revolution, Ukrainian photographers united to create a photo project to remember the events of 2013-2014 which changed Ukraine’s course of history. Titled HUMAN FACTOR. LAST EDITION, it showcases the ordinary Ukrainians who to...
