Lifestyle
Ukrainian fashion photographer and director Sasha Samsonova has shot U.S. fashion icon Kylie Jenner for the cover of another icon, Playboy magazine. “No words, just so much love,” Samsonova wrote in h
Sep. 17, 2019
What Ukraine considers to be its best universities are actually some of the world’s worst, according to rankings that purport to measure world higher education quality. Some of Ukraine’s most prestigi
Sep. 13, 2019
One of Ukraine’s most popular DJs, Anastasia Topolskaia, better known by her stage name Nastia, has become a resident of the United Kingdom’s BBC Radio 1. She will give a series of six shows for the r
Sep. 6, 2019
Movies
There is one “villain” in the Vasyl Stus biopic “Censored” that Ukrainians would have wanted to have been named. But, due to legal threats, he wasn’t. In a key film scene, Stus, the Ukrainian dissiden
Sep. 6, 2019
Art
Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions is set to see a whole host of global talent take to one stage – and one of the favourites is Ukrainian performer Kseniya Simonova. Read more here.
Sep. 1, 2019
ODESA, Ukraine — When Ukrainian Ivanna Sakhno came to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in the English-speaking world, she was only 15. Six years later, her name features on the cre
Jul. 26, 2019
Meeting a rock star singing world hits right on the street may sound like a dream but that’s exactly what happened to some pedestrians in Kyiv when Jared Leto, the leader of the U.S. band Thirty Secon
Jul. 19, 2019
When Ukrainian hip-hop trio Fo Sho formed half a year ago they had no idea one of their first live performances would be at Ukraine’s most popular music festival. Only five months in the music busines
Jul. 5, 2019
It has been roughly 15 years since a friend of Oleksii Andreiev invited him to a nudist beach for the first time. At first, Andreiev was hesitant. But soon he agreed — after all, he was curious to see
Jun. 27, 2019
It took Alyona Savranenko, known by her stage name Alyona Alyona, half a year to go from working at a nursery school to being unofficially titled Ukraine’s best rapper. The 27-year-old up-and-coming s
Apr. 12, 2019
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been one of the most recognizable figures in Ukraine long before he entered the presidential race on New Year’s Eve. Generations of Ukrainians have watched Zelenskiy’s comic sh
Apr. 5, 2019
A photo of the Rodina Mat monument cutting through the Kyiv fog with a sword, taken by Kyiv photographer Sergey Ristenko, has won a People’s Choice Prize in the international SkyPixel Aerial Photograp
Mar. 22, 2019
Here’s something few might have predicted: the market for the services of psychics is booming in Ukraine, with hundreds of advertisements online and on the streets featuring mysterious people wearing
Mar. 22, 2019
Music
PARIS — The flight to Tel Aviv was preparing for takeoff when Bilal Hassani, France’s Eurovision nominee, accepted a handset from the flight attendants. Read the full story here.
Mar. 12, 2019
Ukraine comprises 24 regions, known as oblasts, and one autonomous region, Crimea. Can you recognize all 25 parts of Ukraine by their outline and location? Here’s a little tip: Ukraine’s biggest oblas
Mar. 2, 2019
After winning the local show Ukraine’s Got Talent in 2009, Ukrainian sand animation artist Kseniya Simonova took her act across the ocean to try to win the hearts of the U.S. audience. And she did: Si
Feb. 5, 2019
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