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Maksym Nelipa — beloved actor, TV showman and drone unit commander — traded the spotlight for service in the ZSU and died defending Ukraine on May 12, 2025; colleagues and fans mourn his heroic sacrifice. | empr.media. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

My new video “Turn Back” is the third of the trilogy of videos I filmed in Ukraine in August, 2023. It has multiple meanings depending on the place in which you find yourself. For many people, it is a plea to a loved one who looking for something somewhere else to find it right there at home. But for me, […]

The Ministry of Culture has updated data on the number of cultural objects damaged by Russian aggression Since Russia’s full-scale aggression in Ukraine began, 1,711 cultural infrastructure objects have been damaged, as reported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine on November 3. According to the Ministry’s data as of October 25, cultural infrastructure suffered the greatest […]

Russian aggression is aimed at destroying everything Ukrainian, and we are defending not only our borders but also our national identity. The aggressor’s publishing products are also a weapon in this war. Russian books have no place in Ukraine! We are asking you to sign an important petition for Ukrainian book publishing – “To protect the Ukrainian cultural space from the ‘Russian […]

The Dormition Cathedral and the Tabernacle Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra were transferred to state ownership. The commission for the acceptance and transfer of the Dormition Cathedral and the Tabernacle Church from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarch to the state began its work on January 2, 2023 and was engaged in making an inventory of the property of the cathedral and the church, assessing the condition of […]