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Ukraine
For centuries, Ukraine has been a crossroads where Europe met the Middle East and Asia. It has been inhabited by different peoples, controlled by different states and experienced horrendous cataclysms
Aug. 20, 2020
Turkey
If you’ve spent any time in Ukraine, you’ve likely heard their names, seen monuments to them or even encountered their portraits on the Ukrainian national currency, the hryvnia. They are historical fi
Aug. 20, 2020
It’s not just cinematography that unites the iconic U.S. director Steven Spielberg and popular actress Mila Kunis. Both of them have Ukrainian roots and ancestry. The world’s pop culture includes many
Aug. 20, 2020
Borys Paton, a Ukrainian engineer who chaired the country’s National Academy of Sciences for over five decades, has died in Kyiv at 101. “Metallurgist, engineer, inventor, scholar, lecturer,” Presiden
Aug. 19, 2020
Chopard and Caroline Scheufele have, for decades, positioned themselves as a luxury brand with a heart, focusing on providing beautiful and opulent jewellery items that give back to the environment, a
Aug. 18, 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has introduced Colonel Kyrylo Budanov, a distinguished special forces operator, as the country’s new military intelligence service chief. The Ukrainian leader is
Aug. 11, 2020
Crime isn’t just a big business. It can also be a big employer. On Aug. 6, the Kyiv branch of the National Police broke up a large-scale fraudulent scheme to steal money from bank clients. The crimina
Aug. 8, 2020
United States Intelligence has accused Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach of acting in the interests of Russia and attempting to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Since 2019, Derkach ha
Aug. 8, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of fraud and money laundering and moved to seize his properties in the states of Kentucky and Texas. Kolomoisky, his busi
Aug. 7, 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleh Tatarov as deputy head of the Presidential Office on Aug. 5. As a police official in 2014, Tatarov tried to justify violence against protester
Aug. 6, 2020
If the Ukrainian music industry consisted solely of the songs played on local radio stations, it would be dominated by pop. Rock and electronic music would be rarities. And hip-hop would be nearly unh
Aug. 6, 2020
The island of Gallinara off the coast of Italy was once a refuge for popes and influential clergymen. But now it has been purchased by Oleksandr Boguslayev, the son of the former majority owner of Ukr
Aug. 4, 2020
Popular U.S. streaming platform Netflix will shoot its first movie in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko announced on July 31. Netflix’s action-comedy “The Last Mercenary” will star
Jul. 31, 2020
The Kyiv City Council has named a small street in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district after Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. He was one of the first foreign correspondents to write about the Holodomor,
Jul. 31, 2020
Cinema Kino42 had been under the coronavirus lockdown longer than it had been in business. It opened in December 2019 in Kyiv, but in those first three months before the COVID‑19 outbreak, it turned i
Jul. 31, 2020
Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president, took charge of Ukraine’s delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on July 30. Kravchuk, 86, was appointed by the President’s Office to lead Ukr
Jul. 30, 2020
Ukraine
For centuries, Ukraine has been a crossroads where Europe met the Middle East and Asia. It has been inhabited by different peoples, controlled by different states and experienced horrendous cataclysms
Aug. 20, 2020
Turkey
If you’ve spent any time in Ukraine, you’ve likely heard their names, seen monuments to them or even encountered their portraits on the Ukrainian national currency, the hryvnia. They are historical fi
Aug. 20, 2020
It’s not just cinematography that unites the iconic U.S. director Steven Spielberg and popular actress Mila Kunis. Both of them have Ukrainian roots and ancestry. The world’s pop culture includes many
Aug. 20, 2020
Borys Paton, a Ukrainian engineer who chaired the country’s National Academy of Sciences for over five decades, has died in Kyiv at 101. “Metallurgist, engineer, inventor, scholar, lecturer,” Presiden
Aug. 19, 2020
Chopard and Caroline Scheufele have, for decades, positioned themselves as a luxury brand with a heart, focusing on providing beautiful and opulent jewellery items that give back to the environment, a
Aug. 18, 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has introduced Colonel Kyrylo Budanov, a distinguished special forces operator, as the country’s new military intelligence service chief. The Ukrainian leader is
Aug. 11, 2020
Crime isn’t just a big business. It can also be a big employer. On Aug. 6, the Kyiv branch of the National Police broke up a large-scale fraudulent scheme to steal money from bank clients. The crimina
Aug. 8, 2020
United States Intelligence has accused Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach of acting in the interests of Russia and attempting to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Since 2019, Derkach ha
Aug. 8, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of fraud and money laundering and moved to seize his properties in the states of Kentucky and Texas. Kolomoisky, his busi
Aug. 7, 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleh Tatarov as deputy head of the Presidential Office on Aug. 5. As a police official in 2014, Tatarov tried to justify violence against protester
Aug. 6, 2020
If the Ukrainian music industry consisted solely of the songs played on local radio stations, it would be dominated by pop. Rock and electronic music would be rarities. And hip-hop would be nearly unh
Aug. 6, 2020
The island of Gallinara off the coast of Italy was once a refuge for popes and influential clergymen. But now it has been purchased by Oleksandr Boguslayev, the son of the former majority owner of Ukr
Aug. 4, 2020
Popular U.S. streaming platform Netflix will shoot its first movie in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko announced on July 31. Netflix’s action-comedy “The Last Mercenary” will star
Jul. 31, 2020
The Kyiv City Council has named a small street in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district after Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. He was one of the first foreign correspondents to write about the Holodomor,
Jul. 31, 2020
Cinema Kino42 had been under the coronavirus lockdown longer than it had been in business. It opened in December 2019 in Kyiv, but in those first three months before the COVID‑19 outbreak, it turned i
Jul. 31, 2020
Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president, took charge of Ukraine’s delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on July 30. Kravchuk, 86, was appointed by the President’s Office to lead Ukr
Jul. 30, 2020
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