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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Ukraine's National Opera loses members to Russia’s war, says art is always political

by Olena MakarenkoFebruary 2, 2023

Following a three-month break after the start of Russia’s all-out war, the National Opera of Ukraine resumed its performances. With some of its members serving in the army,...

Culture

Ukrainian Carol of the Bells returns to Carnegie Hall 100 years later

by The Kyiv Independent news deskDecember 5, 2022

A hundred years after it was heard for the first time by a North American audience, the famous Ukrainian carol Shchedryk,' also known as 'Carol of the Bells,'...

National Culture

Making sense of Ukrainian war memes: From watermelons to Saint Javelin

by Daryna AntoniukNovember 29, 2022

“Breaking: This lettuce outlasts Russian annexation of Kherson,” reads a meme posted a few hours after Russia announced its retreat from the city of Kherson. This is a...

Culture National

Empty Kherson art museum in despair after entire collection stolen by Russia

by Francis FarrellNovember 26, 2022

KHERSON — Housed in a grand imperial building with a view out onto the Dnipro River, the Kherson Fine Arts Museum once hosted one of the richest collections...

Culture

‘Freedom on Fire’ brings personal stories from Ukraine’s war onto the big screen

by Anastasiia MalenkoOctober 20, 2022

MILL VALLEY, California – Director Evgeny Afineevsky is best known for bringing to the screen one of the most pivotal moments in the modern history of Ukraine –...

Culture

Mykolaiv theater lives on from bunker amid shelling

by Alexander QuerySeptember 22, 2022

MYKOLAIV – The bunker under the Mykolaiv academic theater was packed, with the last preparations well underway for an evening show 30 kilometers west of the front line....

Culture

As Russia seeks to destroy Ukrainian culture, diaspora continues to preserve it abroad

by Anastasiia MalenkoAugust 31, 2022

As Igor Martiniouk, 20, looked around the Soyuzivka Ukrainian Heritage Center in Upstate New York, the Catskill Mountains and lush green forests reminded him of the Ukrainian Carpathian...

Culture

The Kyiv Independent publishes ‘Diary of Ukrainian Resistance,’ first-hand account of Russia’s full-scale war

by Alexander QueryJuly 2, 2022

The Kyiv Independent joined forces with journalists Frédéric Ploquin and Maria Poblete to publish “The Kyiv Independent: Diary of Ukrainian Resistance” ("Carnet de bord de la résistance ukrainienne"),...

Culture

Ukrainian borshch added to UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage

by Alisa SobolievaJuly 2, 2022

Ukrainian traditional beetroot soup, borshch, is now inscribed on UNESCO’s list of endangered intangible cultural heritage. On July 1, UNESCO approved a decision to add borshch to the...

Culture

Serhiy Zhadan: ‘If Russia wins, there will be no literature, no culture, nothing’

by Alexander QueryJune 10, 2022

“C’mon, this way,” Serhiy Zhadan said, climbing the stairs of Kharkiv’s Puppet Theater. We follow the writer’s black cigarette jeans and iconic leather jacket through a maze of...

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