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• Festivities Multiply since Ukrainian Independence: Part 2

  This is the second article of a three-part series about various Ukraine festivals since the country's independence in 1991. Ukraine.com is proud to present the following article on Film ...

• Festivities Multiply since Ukrainian Independence: Part 1

  Ukrainians have a history of celebration but with the advent of the country's independence in 1991, festivals of all kinds have exploded on the cultural scene. Layered with culture, customs, ...

• Ukrainian Babushkas – A Source of Wisdom and Sunflower Seeds

  "If Palace Walls Could Talk" - One old woman sweeps the Kiev streets. Another marches off to a construction site, pick axe and shovel in hand. On the corner, a third woman wrapped in a scarf ...

• Odessa’s catacombs: An Ancient Metro – Ukraine

  Every corner of Ukraine's streets carries a history lesson telling stories of resistance and abdication. Sometimes these stories are not only told by walking in the open air but unfold ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...