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His face is everywhere. Black and white, peering out from billboards across the country behind Woody Allen-esque glasses, Serhiy Taruta has accomplished a quintessentially Ukrainian feat: to be both i
Jul. 27, 2018
Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska, 18, became the youngest athlete to be ranked among the world’s 100 best female tennis players. Yastremska has been ranked the 100th best female tennis player
Jul. 19, 2018
Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have hinte
Jul. 18, 2018
Two Ukrainian video bloggers have sneaked into at tank storage facility and revealed significant security weaknesses at a state-owned tank factory in Kharkiv. One of the men, who uses the nickname Dim
Jul. 18, 2018
The relatively high electoral support of Ukrainians for the actor and showman Volodymyr Zelensky and musician Sviatoslav Vakarchuk shows Ukrainians want new faces in politics, sociological group Ratin
Jul. 15, 2018
ZAITSEVE, Ukraine — At noon on a recent hot summer day, a squad of Ukrainian infantrymen is sitting in a gloomy room behind a wall of sandbags. Calm but alert, the soldiers smoke and sip energy drinks
Jul. 13, 2018
Honest History
Editor’s Note: This is the 12th story in the Kyiv Post’s Honest History series, which aims to debunk myths about Ukrainian history. The series is supported by the Black Sea Trust, a project of the Ger
Jul. 13, 2018
The winner of Eurovision 2018, Israel’s Netta Barzilai, is shooting a music video in Ukraine capital, Kyiv. The Israeli singer was spotted by locals and allowed fans to take selfies with her and even
Jul. 11, 2018
For Katya, a 20-year-old student in the Russian capital, encountering the world at large came way of a young Mexican engineer named Axel. The pair met in a crowded Moscow bar halfway through the World
Jul. 10, 2018
Ukrainian pop song Plakala (I Cried) by KAZKA band made it to the top among the music videos in the Ukrainian segment of YouTube video hosting. It is the first song performed in Ukrainian, which manag
Jul. 9, 2018
Oleksandr Pranko was wounded during the EuroMaidan Revolution that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 and was beaten by Kremlin-backed militia in Donetsk the very same year. But his worst orde
Jul. 9, 2018
EDMONTON, Canada — Ukraine keeps losing young and talented people: every month some 100,000 Ukrainians become labor migrants, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin. Endemic corruption,
Jul. 9, 2018
Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician Levko Lukyanenko died on July 7 at the age of 89 in a Kyiv hospital after an illness. A dissident who spent years in Soviet prison, Lukyanenko was known as a
Jul. 8, 2018
U.S. tech giant Amazon acquired Ring for an impressive $1 billion this February. But the startup, which is developing smart home security systems, still has its largest R&D center in Ukraine and i
Jul. 8, 2018
Grammarly is going up in the world. The Ukrainian startup has been so successful in helping English speakers to check their writing that they have moved to a new office on the 14th floor of Kyiv’s cen
Jul. 6, 2018
Honest History
Editor’s Note: This is the 11th story in the Kyiv Post’s Honest History series, which aims to debunk myths about Ukrainian history often exploited by Kremlin and other propaganda. The series is suppor
Jul. 6, 2018