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The island of Gallinara off the coast of Italy was once a refuge for popes and influential clergymen. But now it has been purchased by Oleksandr Boguslayev, the son of the former majority owner of Ukr
Aug. 4, 2020
Popular U.S. streaming platform Netflix will shoot its first movie in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko announced on July 31. Netflix’s action-comedy “The Last Mercenary” will star
Jul. 31, 2020
The Kyiv City Council has named a small street in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district after Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. He was one of the first foreign correspondents to write about the Holodomor,
Jul. 31, 2020
Cinema Kino42 had been under the coronavirus lockdown longer than it had been in business. It opened in December 2019 in Kyiv, but in those first three months before the COVID‑19 outbreak, it turned i
Jul. 31, 2020
Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president, took charge of Ukraine’s delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on July 30. Kravchuk, 86, was appointed by the President’s Office to lead Ukr
Jul. 30, 2020
ODESA, Ukraine – Allrise Capital, a U.S. investment fund, on July 21 closed a landmark deal to buy Odesa’s Chornomorets soccer stadium. In theory, this could be one of the sexiest assets put up for sa
Jul. 30, 2020
The situation with water supply in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula is becoming more critical as the Russian occupation government is looking for new water sources. Before Russia’s annexati
Jul. 28, 2020
Since 2014, Ukrainian observers have agreed: The country is moving West, for good. Russia’s occupation of Crimea and Donbas and the aging Ukrainian pro-Russian electorate gave the impression that West
Jul. 24, 2020
The bus operator FlixBus launches two new international trips from Ukraine on the Kyiv-Krakow-Prague and Kyiv-Vilnius routes. The press service of the company said the Kyiv-Vilnius bus departs daily f
Jul. 23, 2020
Romania’s top football coach Mircea Lucescu has been officially introduced as the new manager of FC Dynamo Kyiv. The details of the contract have not been specified, according to the club’s official w
Jul. 23, 2020
Noel Israel Khokhar has been nominated as Pakistan’s ambassador to Ukraine, Ukraine House Pakistan, a nonprofit that works to improve relations between Ukraine and Pakistan, reported on July 21. The E
Jul. 22, 2020
When Ukrainian designer Anton Suprunenko first saw the Pepsi website, he wondered why one of the most recognizable brands in the world uses such outdated designs. With 15 years of experience working w
Jul. 20, 2020
Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov demanded that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky renew public apologies to him over a 2014 joke, Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel on the evening of July 18. Bac
Jul. 19, 2020
Ukraine’s Holos (Voice) Party has announced it has become an opposition political group. Read more here.
Jul. 17, 2020
LOT Polish Airlines has launched flights on the Warsaw-Lviv-Warsaw route, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these flights are not yet available to tourists. “LOT Airlines launched flights on the Warsa
Jul. 16, 2020
Ukraine’s long-awaited large-scale privatization has officially begun. On July 15, the state-owned four-star Dnipro Hotel, located in the Kyiv city center, was sold for $41 million to a private invest
Jul. 15, 2020
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The June 19 defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea included a promise to provide military assistance to one another – within days Pyongyang said it was sending troops to Ukraine.
Jun. 26