Lifestyle

Nikolayevsky Chain Bridge, a long-gone Kyiv landmark

Built in the 19th century, the Chain Bridge was the city’s landmark, but did not survive long. To initially cross the Dnipro, one of the widest rivers …
denis rafalsky

Dark period in Ukrainian-Polish history comes to life in new book

“Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s: Documents from the Archives of the Secret Services,” sums up a decade of joint work by Ukrainian and …
Svitlana Tuchynska

Everyone is Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day – March 17.

Drinking stout or ale, donning the color green, gathering in pubs and dancing to Irish music – that’s how it goes the world over. This year Saint …
Elena Pashkovskaya

Sasha Grey in Kyiv

The adult film star’s performance will focus on music, not visuals, though, and will consist of a DJ concert.  Grey started her music career back in …
Kyiv Post

Get ready to rumble at Sports Palace

A native of Vinnytsia, Uzelkov was scheduled to fight with Sofiane Sebihi of Switzerland on this date. But the latter refused to fight because of …
Kyiv Post

Maslyana, grand celebrations

More than 100 kinds of pancakes, exhibition of sculptures made of straw and ice as well as exciting musical performances await the visitors.  The …
Kyiv Post

Keiko Matsui

“It’s a mix of eternal, passionate, emotional and exotic melodies,” Matsui, has said in one of the interviews describing her album. Matsui often …
Kyiv Post

Jazz music at its best

Ukrainian Man Sound, Ukrainian-Kazakh Kyiv Art Ensemble, American-German Mini Brass Band and Polish Adam Wendt Power Set are set to entertain the …
Kyiv Post

Celebrating St.Patrick’s Day

Green beer and other traditional Irish treats accompanied with musical performances await the visitors on this day in the capital’s pubs Golden Gate, …
Kyiv Post

Lifestyle Blog: TV journalist buys pensioner potatoes, story goes viral

This Facebook post by Ukrainian TV journalist Olena Danko was shared 3,279 times in just 22 hours, taking the Ukrainian Internet by storm. The post …
Daryna Shevchenko

Liza Minnelli, Alan Cumming turn friendship into hit show

“Liza coming to Fire Island – can you imagine? It was like a papal visit,” Cumming said, recalling the friends’ two shows that spawned the sold out …
Reuters

Sculpture in honor of Swedish fans to be set up at Trukhaniv Island

As the press service of Kyiv city state administration reported, on Tuesday the winners were chosen of a flash-contest for the best design for a park …
Interfax-Ukraine

Book returned to Estonian library 69 years late

Ivika Turkson of the Tallinn Central Library says that last week the man in his mid-80s returned the overdue book — which was checked out on March 7, …
Associated Press

Poll: Sex is important for over 40% of adult Ukrainians

According to the results of the poll presented at the press conference in Kyiv on Monday, 95.1% of adult respondents had sexual relations, while 4.9% …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yanukovych changes head of financial service market watchdog

Relevant decrees No. 125/2013 and No. 126/2013 were signed by the president on March 12, 2013.
Interfax-Ukraine

New York Times: Ukraine gets its own Vogue

“Ukrainian clients are very important for all of the major European brands,” Ms. Tsukanova said in the bar of the Hôtel du Louvre on Monday. She was …
Interns

Student authors give Wikipedia Ukraine a boost

The Wikipedia Education Program rolled out two years ago in the United States as part of the non-governmental organization Wikimedia’s Public Policy …
Christopher Miller

Cannabis-smoking ascetics light up Nepal festival

Giri was one of more than a hundred such naked ascetics at the ancient Shivaratri festival, which brings an estimated one million devout Hindus …
Reuters
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