On October 14 Ukraine celebrated Defender’s Day, which was decreed in 2015 and originated from the Ukrainian Cossacks holiday, marking another decisive step away from Communist traditions of the USSR. The newsfeed of all media are full of photos and videos from many public events, including protests, which took place in Ukraineon that day. A lot of beautiful pictures of […]
The United States Board on Geographic Names will amend the spelling of Ukraine’s capital in its international database changing it from “Kiev” to “Kyiv”. According to the Embassy of Ukraine in the US, “the United States Board on Geographic Names considered the appeal of Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valeriy Chaly and unanimously decided to remove ‘Kiev’ as […]
Activists call on the Ukrainian Parliament to pass the law to hold those responsible for war crimes liable. On June 6 the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) passed in the first reading the draft law no.9438 “On amending some legal acts of Ukraine to harmonize the criminal legislation with provisions of the international law”. The draft law brings criminal liability for […]
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 […]
The Revolution of Dignity ended five years ago, but new heroes still join the Heavenly Hundred. People suffer from terrible illnesses and die. Doctors are at a loss, and individual tests show significantly exceeded rates of heavy metals in the patients’ bodies. What are the symptoms Serhiy Samulyak was one of the participants of the Revolution of Dignity. On the […]
Date: January 24, 2019 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine A Ukrainian court has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of high treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison. “Yanukovych committed a crime against the foundation of Ukraine’s national security,” Judge Vladyslav Devyatko said in Kyiv’s Obolon district court on January 24, 2019. Yanukovych, 68, was also found guilty […]
Champions League Final in 2018 took place in Kyiv. The central stadium of Ukraine’s capital has hosted only three football matches of such a high status. In 1975, at the times of the Soviet Union, the return match of UEFA Super Cup between Dynamo and Bavaria was played at the Republican stadium in Kyiv. In 2012, the Olimpiyskiy National Sports […]
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Ukrainian animation movie “The Stolen Princess” to be shown in 40 countries around the globe.
President Perto Poroshenko’s escort runs over an old man at the central Kyiv. This was happened exactly right at the Heavenly Hundred street in the central Kyiv. Video clearly shows that neither the driver, not policeman who was standing near the man do nothing to help the victim unless the whole President cortege drives by. The elderly man at the […]



