Those who celebrate Valentine’s Day wake up in that morning with a sense of anticipation.

This will not come as news to people who live here, but Kyiv's women have just been rated as the world's most beautiful.

They wear Laboutin boots and are irresistible to men.

As a single person who isn’t good at cooking and who has an empty refrigerator on most days, I am frequently at restaurants or cafes and sometimes at groceries around Kyiv.

While the city’s offerings have improved greatly since the first time I was in Kyiv 16 years ago, service is still stuck in the slow lane in too many places.

Looking at the simple, yet cozy interiors at Nikolai’s Pie House, I wondered if the owners were from Moscow or Odessa. Somehow Kyiv restaurateurs think that home-style wood flooring, exposed brick walls and black menu boards are not cool enough in comparison with glowing chandeliers and velvet-draped heavy furniture.

If you keep your eyes closed and hear these two women sing, you’d think they are twins. Ageless, pure and incredibly harmonious, Nina and Tonya Matviyenko’s voices touch the audience with melodious folk songs that everyone remembers from childhood.

When American singer and songwriter David Brown started receiving emails from Artemy Troitsky in 2000, he thought he was communicating with a Russian college student.

Ukraine's second largest investor has a large presence in Ukraine's promising market of 46 million people.

German Ambassador to Ukraine Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth is not new to Ukraine.

One famous film quote says that men are like parking spaces: The good ones are already taken and the rest are too small.

A two-act ballet performance lasts at least two hours. A documentary is usually half that length.

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Football has become a victim of its own popularity as shown by the swathe of match-fixing scandals in the past year, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — After 42 years in the fashion industry, designer Roberto Cavalli is finding new ways to build his brand — in bursts of 140 characters or less. The 71-year-old recently began tweeting and blogging daily in his own irreverent, stream-of-consciousness way.