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They may be called smartphones, but one man came up with a very dumb way to smuggle them. A 51-year-old Ukrainian citizen was caught at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on Dec. 10 trying to bring 26 iPhones in
Dec. 12, 2019
Dark and dramatic shots of Kyiv’s Darnitsky Bridge and its nearby industrial spaces have been used in yet another western music video, this time featured in the British rapper Stormzy’s new hit video
Dec. 12, 2019
HELSINKI — Finland became the country with the world’s youngest sitting head of government on Dec. 10 when the Nordic country’s parliament chose a 34-year-old woman who is a prolific user of social me
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 22 Education: Carpathia Sports School (Radomyshl) Profession: Soccer player Did you know? Zinchenko says he’s never tried alcohol. Oleksandr Zinchenko is among the world’s best young soccer playe
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 26 Education: Kyiv Municipal Academy of Circus and Variety Arts Profession: Singer Did you know? Pash is a singer now, but when she was a teenager, she dreamed of becoming a police officer like h
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 19 Education: Pursuing a journalist degree at Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko National University Profession: Judoka Did you know? Bilodid plans to become a sports journalist after retiring from her athl
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 29 Education: B.A. in political science and government from the National Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, M.A. in European Studies from Maastricht University, the Netherlands Profession: Minister of educatio
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 26 Education: Filmmaking, Ivan Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theater, Film and Television Profession: Film director Did you know? He is a member of the European Film Academy. Nariman Alie
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 29 Education: Kharkiv Institute of Armored Forces Profession: Military officer Did you know? In the hottest months of Russia’s war in Donbas, Bagayev fought under the call sign “Tulip.” The name
Dec. 10, 2019
Top 30 Under 30
Age: 28 Education: Zaporizhia National University Profession: Minister of digital transformation Did you know? Fedorov is the youngest minister in Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov is one of the key figures in
Dec. 10, 2019
While the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France were negotiating ways to end Russia’s war against Ukraine in Paris on Dec. 9, this war claimed the lives of another three Ukrainian soldiers.
Dec. 10, 2019
Face-to-face talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have yielded modest progress with tentative agreements on prisoner exchanges and a total ceasefire, but no political breakthrough to the fi
Dec. 10, 2019
When Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, showed up in Kyiv unannounced last week, it raised eyebrows in the city, but hardly made it into local headlines. It was clear what G
Dec. 9, 2019
The Sixth Kyiv Court of Appeals has left in force a decision of Kyiv City Council to rename Moskovsky Avenue to Avenue of Stepan Bandera and Avenue of General Vatutin into Avenue of Roman Shukhevych,
Dec. 9, 2019
Surprise! Rudolph Giuliani, attorney to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, swung by Kyiv on Dec. 4 for an unannounced two-day visit to gather even more information that could be used to discredit Trump’s
Dec. 6, 2019
Engaging with its far-flung diaspora is one of Ukraine’s most important challenges, the Ukrainian-American lawyer Andrew Mac believes. It has the potential to bring a stream of intellectual and physic
Dec. 6, 2019