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• 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 ...

• Tradition and Tragedy – Ukraine’s Kobzar Minstrels

  Listen closely and the Ukrainian wind may still carry an ancient song sung by blind minstrels, a song that tells a spellbinding tale of Cossack courage and their heroic quest for Ukraine’s ...

• Ukraine’s History, Culture, Art, and Literature

  Of course, the writers at Ukraine.com hope that our website will be your first stop on the Internet superhighway to learn about this emerging travel destination, but to compliment your viewing, ...

• Ivan Franko’s Timeless Words Craft a Ukrainian Portrait

  Trudging along a Kyiv street, a man in a long dark coat with books and newspapers swinging from the buttons, whispers madly to no one in particular. Crowds of people along the pavement separate ...

• Ukrainians’ Quest for Permanence and Sanctuary

  What remains is history or rather, a memory of history for many older Ukrainians. An agrarian country, Ukrainians’ undisputed connection to the land surpassed Tsars and Communist leaders ...

• Ukraine’s Orange Revolution Suffering a Case of the Blues

  Two years after the peaceful protests that shone a spotlight on the falsified presidential elections and eventually ushered in the pro-democratic, pro-Western government of Viktor ...

• European Union Membership

  Amidst the region of the world once behind an Iron Curtain, a race to join Europe’s elite union is heating up, and while Poland may have been one of the first countries to be embraced by the ...

• The Future of Ukrainian Education

  Two world wars drove many to America as did years of Soviet domination, yet, as the history unfolds Ukrainian-Americans remained fiercely committed to their Motherland. These days, ...