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• Towering over the City of Kiev

  Nicknamed the Iron Maiden, Brezhnev’s mother, and Mother Motherland, an angry goddess dominates the skies above the Dnieper River in Kiev. Weighing 1,000 tons, 15 times the weight of Lady ...

• Пануюча у Київському небі: Батьківщина-Матір простягає свій запальний гнів крізь небо

  Прозвана у народі численними прізвищами, наприклад, Залізною Дівою, Батьківщина-Матір, гнівна богиня, панує у небі над Дніпром у Києві. Вона важить 1000 тон, у 15 разів більш ніж Статуя Свободи, ...

• Icons of Mystery; Icons of the Faithful

  During the summers when wheat does not grow and at times when hope drains away from the soul, Ukrainians turn to faith. From farmhouse to farmhouse, men and women once worshipped wooden ...

• Загадкові ікони. Ікони віруючих.

  Влітку, коли зерно не зростає та у часи, коли висихає остання крапля надії у душі, українці звертаються до віри. В кожній оселі чоловіки та жінки колись обожнювали дерев’яні ікони, ті, які, за ...

• A city for ‘walkers’, Kiev traces centuries of history on one street

  Walking through Kiev’s repository of history and travelers will find vendors selling old Lenin busts, Wehrmacht medals from World War II and banners proclaiming communism’s glory. Andrew’s ...

• Ukrainians are a quiet storm building in Hollywood

  Beleaguered by the tide of films with a Russian revisionist point of view, Ukrainians in Hollywood are busy promoting Ukrainian interests in films and television. With the birth of the Hollywood ...

• Wild West Movie Icon, “Curly”, a Proud Ukrainian

  You may remember the actor playing the role of Curly, the ornery and wizened cowboy in the film, “City Slickers” as Best Supporting Academy Award winning actor, Jack Palance, but this actor, ...

• Ukraine Adventure Travel

  Do not travel more than 100 kilometers from Kyiv or you will end up on a one-lane rutted dirt road with fallen trees and bandits waiting to ambush your car. Fact or fiction? While the early ...

• Ancient Ukrainian Christmas Stories

  In centuries past, young people told their Christmas stories on tiny two-storied wooden structures made of wood. Vertep, the basis of modern-day Ukrainian puppet theater, had its beginnings ...

• Caroling warms Ukrainian hearts on the darkest nights of winter

  Solemnly marching through a fresh snow, an old man, dressed as a goat, leads a small procession. Behind him, a woman carries a canvas bag and a second man hoists a six-pointed star attached to a ...