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• Ukrainian Fairy Tales

  Common to every culture, the fairy tale is a lynchpin of the human condition. At their mother’s knee, children have learned history and behavior through metaphor for centuries. Ukraine is a ...

• The Communication Revolution Finds a Home in Ukraine

  Revolutions past may have been born in print but in the 21st century, shifts in government and politics occur with a huge boost from cyberspace. Despite of lack of access to the Ukrainian mass ...

• Ukraine’s Discovery: Pyramids or Temples

  Thousands of miles away from the Egyptian pyramids, a recent discovery calls into question the long-established belief that Egypt’s archaeological mecca is the oldest of its kind in the world. ...

• Ukraine’s Greatest Show on Earth

  Gravity defying acrobats. Dancing bears. Juggling clowns. Little has changed since circus performers spun their talents for Egyptian pharaohs and Roman emperors and like hundreds of countries ...

• Ukraine’s Pagan History

  Ukrainians hedge their bets in many areas including religion. With a history wrought with political turbulence and violence the notion that Ukrainians hold on to old folktale beliefs as well as ...

• Ukrainian Stamps Accomplish More Than Mail Delivery

  Stamp collectors around the world know the value of the little paper square affixed to packages and letters. Stamps connect people living a great distance together, honor and remember a ...

• Demolition and preservation of Soviet era monuments

  Since the age of the Egyptian pharaohs, grandiose monuments have been erected to honor rulers and compel their subjects worship their visages long after their mortal deaths. The Soviet ...

• Carving God Out of Rock: Ukraine’s Rock-Cut Church

  In Europe, men raised their churches knowing many would never see the climax of stone and mortar. In the desert, men came upon their cathedrals at dawn or in the moonlight. Weather built these ...

• Ukraine’s Capital Gets a Linguistic Facelift

  Kiev is now Kyiv, at least according to the US State Department and western Ukrainians are concerned. Kyiv has long been the spelling of Ukraine’s capital for many but for Russian speaking ...

• Interpretation of Ukraine’s History Collides With Ukraine’s Present

  Partisan or traitor? Freedom fighter or spy? These diametrically opposed labels may speak to the interpretation of the country’s history during World War II but the argument is far from settled, ...