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Will the once record-beating Ukrainian aviation ever revive? For years, the Ukrainian state museum of aviation hasn’t left the list of the best aviation museums in the world. Just recently, in the year of 2018, CNN has included it in the TOP 20 aviation museums list. Since the year of 2003, with the support of the National Aviation University (NAU), […]

Ukrainian fab lab manufactures DIY PAPR respirators to equip healthcare workers. Garage Hub, a Ukrainian fab lab, invented a do-it-yourself low-cost powered air-purifying respirator responding to the daunting shortage of protective equipment for medics. They’ve started a scaled-up project to help the healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients. Read on to discover their story. “In Ukraine about 20 per cent of […]

Ukrainian – American singer Kelsie Kimberlin releasing provocative video “Lobotomy” while protests against racism and lack of leadership roil the country. Why do people blindly follow leaders and media even when it hurts them? This is a question for the ages and the subject of “Lobotomy.” There is a great deal of symbolism in the video, from the broken hearts, […]

50 photos of clean space during coronavirus quarantine. Photos taken from a drone. Professional photographer Serhiy Ristenko has been using a drone for taking pictures for the last fewy ears. He used quarantine time to capture the free-from-the-crowd-and-cars capital where he lives and works. “I like to show not only Kyiv’s famous tourist attractions, but also places where nobody has […]

“Novis” Plant located in the city of Dnipro in Ukraine has developed and certified corn starch-based bags that biodegrade within 90 days.

Go-A will represent Ukraine with an authentic Ukrainian song at Eurovision 2020

Muscovy feared Ukraine Ruthenia’s knowledge so deeply it destroyed entire libraries. What was erased — and why this history still matters today — uncovered by EMPR.media.

Ukraine creaded flying drone that search for unexploded ordnance objects and mines, allowing soldiers to risk their lives less.

The night between October 31 and November 1 is not just the Halloween Night but also the Veles Night marked in Ukraine. Turns out these two holidays have very much in common.   It is believed that the Veles Night (the Night of Veles or Velesova nich in Ukrainian) is a night of big power, when the border between the […]

Ukrainian musical romance film “Hutsulka Ksenya” directed by Olena Demyanenko was awarded the Grand Prix at the Mt. Fuji - Atami Film Festival in Japan

Digital rights are at the center of the current edition of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA taking place in Kyiv, Ukraine between March 22 and 30. “In 2012 a new term was coined – ‘digital rights’. Back then the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution stating that the same rights that people […]

More than 100 years ago, on March 17, 1917, the Ukrainian Central Rada (UCR) was founded in Kyiv. It was the first representative body of the Ukrainian people in modern history and the first parliament after the proclamation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. The overthrow of the Russian monarchy prompted the establishment of UCR. After that, councils of workers’ and […]