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According to a new poll, 92 percent of EU citizens who visited Kyiv during the Eurovision Song Contest in early May would like to return to Ukraine. And some 64 percent of the EU citizens said they wo
May. 26, 2017
He says he would never write a song just to get played on the radio and winning Eurovision will not change his life, but who is Salvador Sobral, the Portuguese star who has touched the hearts of milli
May. 14, 2017
Eurovision isn’t all about songs. It’s about business, too. Initially, it was to have cost Ukraine about $24 million to host the show. Instead, Ukraine’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is spendi
May. 12, 2017
Lots of cities have Chinatowns — areas where expat Chinese people live and do business in close proximity. And with good reason. Chinese account for nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. But th
May. 11, 2017
During the press conference after the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest late on May 9, contestants who made it to the final thanked their supporters, shared their feelings and some artis
May. 10, 2017
Many Ukrainians refuse to buy Russian goods and services, but not members of the president’s family, it seems. The 16-year-old son of Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, Mykhailo, the youngest of th
May. 5, 2017
One of the world’s top actresses, Meryl Streep, has called for the freeing of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in jail after being subjected to a sham trial in Russia. The U.S
Apr. 30, 2017
Much has changed in the fortunes of the 100 richest Ukrainians over the last year, according to Ukrainian weekly magazine Focus, which has published its annual ranking of 100 richest Ukrainians. The t
Apr. 21, 2017
In 1996, Austrian aristocratic scion Julius Meinl V was ready to move back east. The Soviet Union had collapsed and Meinl — the fifth in a line of Julius Meinls extending back to the man who founded
Apr. 21, 2017
Volodymyr Lavrenchuk is chairman of the board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval in Ukraine, the nation’s 5th largest bank with an estimated $1.9 billion in assets and largest foreign lender. Its parent company
Apr. 21, 2017
Movies
Kyiv will roll out the red carpet for some of Ukraine’s biggest film stars this week as the glitz and glamor of Hollywood meet the grit and grace of Ukrainian film on the red carpet outside of the Fai
Apr. 19, 2017
The Pechersk Kyiv Court has arrested Rinat Akhmetov’s shares in monopoly fixed-phone operator Ukrtelecom and its subsidiary TriMob, “protecting the interests of the state and seeking to refund the los
Apr. 14, 2017
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Oleksandr Senkevych impressed many in November 2015, when he defeated a candidate from the old local elite for mayor of Mykolaiv, a southern provincial capital with a strong pro-Ru
Apr. 13, 2017
People
Ukrainian pop singer Ivan Dorn has found himself in the middle of a scandal after making controversial comments about Russia’s war against Ukraine in an interview with a Russian video blogger. In Dorn
Apr. 13, 2017
Ukraine’s Military Law Enforcement Service is to be reformed into a new military police service in 2017, Major-General Ihor Kryshtun, the acting head of the service, said during a briefing on April 11
Apr. 12, 2017
A Ukrainian startup may have created the successor to the hugely popular Lego and Meccano toys. The startup has come up with an ingenious toy made of small plastic cubes with built-in magnets that all
Apr. 6, 2017
According to a new poll, 92 percent of EU citizens who visited Kyiv during the Eurovision Song Contest in early May would like to return to Ukraine. And some 64 percent of the EU citizens said they wo
May. 26, 2017
He says he would never write a song just to get played on the radio and winning Eurovision will not change his life, but who is Salvador Sobral, the Portuguese star who has touched the hearts of milli
May. 14, 2017
Eurovision isn’t all about songs. It’s about business, too. Initially, it was to have cost Ukraine about $24 million to host the show. Instead, Ukraine’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is spendi
May. 12, 2017
Lots of cities have Chinatowns — areas where expat Chinese people live and do business in close proximity. And with good reason. Chinese account for nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. But th
May. 11, 2017
During the press conference after the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest late on May 9, contestants who made it to the final thanked their supporters, shared their feelings and some artis
May. 10, 2017
Many Ukrainians refuse to buy Russian goods and services, but not members of the president’s family, it seems. The 16-year-old son of Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, Mykhailo, the youngest of th
May. 5, 2017
One of the world’s top actresses, Meryl Streep, has called for the freeing of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in jail after being subjected to a sham trial in Russia. The U.S
Apr. 30, 2017
Much has changed in the fortunes of the 100 richest Ukrainians over the last year, according to Ukrainian weekly magazine Focus, which has published its annual ranking of 100 richest Ukrainians. The t
Apr. 21, 2017
In 1996, Austrian aristocratic scion Julius Meinl V was ready to move back east. The Soviet Union had collapsed and Meinl — the fifth in a line of Julius Meinls extending back to the man who founded
Apr. 21, 2017
Volodymyr Lavrenchuk is chairman of the board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval in Ukraine, the nation’s 5th largest bank with an estimated $1.9 billion in assets and largest foreign lender. Its parent company
Apr. 21, 2017
Movies
Kyiv will roll out the red carpet for some of Ukraine’s biggest film stars this week as the glitz and glamor of Hollywood meet the grit and grace of Ukrainian film on the red carpet outside of the Fai
Apr. 19, 2017
The Pechersk Kyiv Court has arrested Rinat Akhmetov’s shares in monopoly fixed-phone operator Ukrtelecom and its subsidiary TriMob, “protecting the interests of the state and seeking to refund the los
Apr. 14, 2017
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Oleksandr Senkevych impressed many in November 2015, when he defeated a candidate from the old local elite for mayor of Mykolaiv, a southern provincial capital with a strong pro-Ru
Apr. 13, 2017
People
Ukrainian pop singer Ivan Dorn has found himself in the middle of a scandal after making controversial comments about Russia’s war against Ukraine in an interview with a Russian video blogger. In Dorn
Apr. 13, 2017
Ukraine’s Military Law Enforcement Service is to be reformed into a new military police service in 2017, Major-General Ihor Kryshtun, the acting head of the service, said during a briefing on April 11
Apr. 12, 2017
A Ukrainian startup may have created the successor to the hugely popular Lego and Meccano toys. The startup has come up with an ingenious toy made of small plastic cubes with built-in magnets that all
Apr. 6, 2017
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