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A Ukrainian has become world’s best cybersportsman in the online shooter game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.” Professional video game player Alexander Kostylev — nicknamed s1mple and aged 21 — has
Jan. 21, 2019
Typically, buses drive around cities and don’t raise any eyebrows as they ply their routes. But this bus is the complete opposite: it dwells off road, and it’s hard to miss when it approaches. Called
Jan. 14, 2019
After coming to Ukraine in 1998, Danish native Torben Majgaard quickly went from selling second-hand computers in his 20s to creating Ciklum, one of the nation’s five largest information technology ou
Jan. 6, 2019
Even when Oleksiy Feliv was very young, everyone around him said he had a clear talent – he was an excellent talker. So when the question of Feliv’s future profession arose, it was natural that they a
Dec. 26, 2018
Ukraine’s state-owned PrivatBank on Dec. 21 filed an appeal against a London High Court decision which had set back its attempts to regain billions of dollars that Ukraine’s largest bank claims its fo
Dec. 23, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Name: Anna Bondarenko Age: 23 Education: Bachelor of Laws from Odesa Academy of Law, Master of Non-Profit Management from Ukrainian Catholic University Profession: CEO and founder of Ukrainian Volunte
Dec. 14, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Name: Zhan Beleniuk Age: 27 Education: National University of Ukraine on Physical Education Profession: Greco-Roman wrestling champion Did you know? Beleniuk has been a junior lieutenant of the Ukrain
Dec. 14, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Oleksandra Zaritska: Lead singer of band Kazka loves singing in Ukrainian, aims for ‘bigger, better’
Name: Oleksandra Zaritska Age: 26 Education: law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University Profession: Singer Did you know? As a child, she took ballet lessons The lead singer of the up-and-coming Ukra
Dec. 14, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Name: Andriy Verkhoglyad Age: 23 Education: Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy Profession: Mechanized combat unit leader Did you know? In late October 2016, Verhoglyad was badly
Dec. 14, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Name: Ruslan Baginskiy Age: 29 Education: Geography, Ivan Franko Lviv National University Profession: Fashion designer Did you know? One of his hobbies is flower arranging. Ukrainian designer Ruslan B
Dec. 14, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Name: Natalia Zharkova Age: 29 Education: Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture Profession: athlete, architect Did you know? Besides diving deep, Zharkova windsurfs and dreams o
Dec. 14, 2018
Top 30 Under 30
Name: Anastasia Deeva Age: 26 Education: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Profession: Executive director of Network of People Living with HIV charity organization, coordinator of the Unite
Dec. 14, 2018
Ukraine can’t claim to lead in many global rankings, but it has strong-armed its way into one more: the country is now among the top 20 by daily traffic on Pornhub, the world’s largest pornography sit
Dec. 13, 2018
Lawyers for two of Ukraine’s wealthiest oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Boholyubov, have said the London High Court has ordered the freeing of their clients’ assets as the country’s largest ba
Dec. 5, 2018
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia will send the round-the-clock express train on the Kyiv-Passazhyrsky-Darnytsia-Boryspil-Airport route to make its first trip. “The regular train trips are to start at 1:00 p.m.,” th
Nov. 30, 2018
Anastasia, a 40-year-old information technology company employee, wants to save money, but life gets in the way. Last month, her grandmother was unexpectedly hospitalized. The granddaughter paid for t
Nov. 2, 2018