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• Pysanky Eggs and Ukrainian Easter Traditions

  Easter bunnies hop across tables in America. Solemn Christian remembrances of Biblical stories of the resurrection capture the attention of many believers in spring as well. While the ...

• Old Folktale – A Ukrainian Cinderella’s Nocturnal Visit

  While the familiar story of Cinderella may be permanently etched in the young minds of American and western European children, another tale of a young Ukrainian girl named Oksana spins a ...

• Ukraine’s Parks Preserve Love and Poetry, Flora and Fauna

  Gladiators spar with Greek Gods. A lion creeps through the fall leaves ready to pounce. On a bench an iron coat lies abandoned. And if you whisper at one end of the white colonnade amidst ...

• Ukrainian International Horse Breeding and Riding

  Little girls dream of owning one. Farmers once relied on their burly strength. Soldiers fired bullets from their stolid backs in wars past. The horse, mankind’s honorable equine partner and ...

• Black Tea and Vodka Inspire the Ukrainian Palette

  A Ukrainian proverb suggests that coffee should be dark as night and sweet like a woman, and while Starbucks tempts the world’s taste buds with elaborate concoctions of coffee, Ukrainians ...

• Kiev’s Golden Gate Metro Station

  In the Zoloti Vorota metro station, today’s harried travelers’ rush through mosaic adorned marble walls and the glow of lit candelabras shine a path on grey granite floors. Centuries ago, ...

• Feast of Malanka

  Minutes after the sun rises, an insistent knock echoes through a rural Ukrainian house. With heavy eyes and limbs still warm from sleep, a young daughter answers the door to find a crimson clad ...

• Ancient Ukrainian Fast Facts

  Coins, maps, and medical instruments may have been the inventive purview of the Greeks. Ancient Romans can certainly lay claim to aqueducts, central heating, and elected government. Yet, ...

• Bread Memorialized in Ukrainian Consciousness and Behind Four Walls

  Bread itself is an object of reverence and hospitality in Ukraine. Recognized for centuries as the “bread basket of Europe” and victimized by Stalin during the Second World War leaving its ...

• St. Michael is Ukraine’s Protector

  Venerated for centuries in countries around the world, the visage of St. Michael, the Archangel of the heavens and the warrior purported to pass judgment on all souls when Christ returns to ...