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EDMONTON, Canada – It’s been more than a hundred years since Orbit Store opened its doors to the Ukrainian community in downtown Edmonton. Today it still serves as a magnet for Ukrainians who call Alb
Jul. 28, 2018
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
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
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
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
When it comes to waterside vacation options, Ukraine has a lot more to offer than just the Black and Azov sea coasts. The country is dotted with lakes and crisscrossed with rivers, where vacationers c
Jul. 6, 2018
In the latest in a spate of attacks on the Roma minority, a 30-year-old Roma woman was murdered on July 1 in Zakarpattia Oblast. She was stabbed near a railway depot in the city of Berehove, 800 kilom
Jul. 3, 2018
Crimean-born Ukrainian Andriy Govorov has just set a new world record in swimming. The 26-year-old Ukrainian became the fastest men’s 50-meter butterfly swimmer in history in the finals of the Sette C
Jul. 2, 2018
KHARKIV, Ukraine — From March 2016 until January 2017, the Kharkiv Tractor Plant was forced to freeze its operations. For those 10 months, over 2,000 people were left without work. But the nearly year
Jun. 28, 2018
EDMONTON, Canada – It’s been more than a hundred years since Orbit Store opened its doors to the Ukrainian community in downtown Edmonton. Today it still serves as a magnet for Ukrainians who call Alb
Jul. 28, 2018
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
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
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
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
When it comes to waterside vacation options, Ukraine has a lot more to offer than just the Black and Azov sea coasts. The country is dotted with lakes and crisscrossed with rivers, where vacationers c
Jul. 6, 2018
In the latest in a spate of attacks on the Roma minority, a 30-year-old Roma woman was murdered on July 1 in Zakarpattia Oblast. She was stabbed near a railway depot in the city of Berehove, 800 kilom
Jul. 3, 2018
Crimean-born Ukrainian Andriy Govorov has just set a new world record in swimming. The 26-year-old Ukrainian became the fastest men’s 50-meter butterfly swimmer in history in the finals of the Sette C
Jul. 2, 2018
KHARKIV, Ukraine — From March 2016 until January 2017, the Kharkiv Tractor Plant was forced to freeze its operations. For those 10 months, over 2,000 people were left without work. But the nearly year
Jun. 28, 2018
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Six officers from North Korea were among the 20 soldiers killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, intelligence sources say.
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