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• Sounds, Sights, and Folklore of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine

  "My House is on the Maidan" - A Ukrainian's house may have once been at the edge of the village, an expression suggesting one's reluctance to voice political views, but during the heady days of ...

• The History of Ukraine’s National Anthem

  "Ukraine is not yet dead", the first line of a patriotic poem written by Pavlo Chubynsky in 1862, the prose, later to accompany a musical score written a year later by Mykhailo Verbytsky, a ...

• Ukrainian Wedding Rituals Bind Centuries Together

  Once upon a time, a woman rejected a suitor's marriage proposal by returning the gift of bread he brought with him or by presenting the marriage seeker with a pumpkin. While rejections may have ...

• Ukraine: Fountain of Tears Weeps Through the Ages

  Grief is the price paid for love. Marking a loss can take years especially when the loss is not only the inevitability of death but an unrequited love. In the case of the Crimean Khan that ...

• Тарас Шевченко: поет, художник та великий герой України

  Чимало років минуло зі смерті прославленого українського письменника, художника та національного героя Тараса Шевченка у 1861 році, але він продовжує ворушити свідомість країни своєю запальною ...

• Taras Shevchenko: Poet, Painter, and Ukraine’s Greatest Hero

  Years after his death in 1861, Ukraine's celebrated writer, painter, and national hero, Taras Shevchenko, continues to stir the country's consciousness with his fiery passion for "this land of ...

• Fun Facts: History of Beekeeping – Ukraine

  Wine may be the "nectar of the Gods" for some, but in Ukraine, honey is the essential ambrosia for both its sweetening taste and medicinal properties. Propolis, a sticky substance that bees ...

• Ukraine Dance: Fancy Footwork the Ukrainian Way

  Energetic, fast-paced, boisterous, and exhausting, Ukrainian dance is as celebrated around the world as the pysanky Easter egg. Borrowed from pagan rites marking the passage of seasons, the ...

• Springtime in Ukraine

  High school graduation may be celebrated with pomp and circumstance and the tradition of tossing one's cap into the air after the formal ceremonies come to an end in many parts of the world, but ...

• Secrets of the Black Sea – Ukraine

  Shipwrecks, fragments of wars fought centuries ago, and the unmarked and watery graves of many have always been the purview of the sea, yet, hundreds of meters below Ukraine's southern border, ...