Lover’s day can bring out the quirkiness in all of us

Valentine’s is the one day a year that brings an explosion of stories of love and romance.
Yesterday at 00:40 | Daryna Shevchenko

United in love, but apart on Valentine’s Day Those who celebrate Valentine’s Day wake up in that morning with a sense of anticipation.
Yesterday at 01:11 | Yuliya Raskevich
Ukraine picks its best music Oleksandr Ponomariov and Iryna Bilyk were named the best singers in Ukraine’s 20 years as an independent nation at the first Yearly Ukrainian National Award ceremony on Feb.8.
Yesterday at 00:58 | Alyona Zhuk
Kyiv’s women rated as world’s most beautiful 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.
Yesterday at 00:51 | Brian Bonner
Kyiv artists losing their workplaces For Christmas, many of Kyiv’s artists got threats of eviction from the studios some of them had used for decades, as the state curtails subsidies to a once-favored group.
Yesterday at 00:40 | Daryna Shevchenko and Anastasia Forina
Sculptures of Ukraine’s genius to shine in France’s Louvre Ukrainian sculpting genius Ioann Heorh Pinzel will go on show this autumn in France’s Louvre with a solo exhibition for more than three months.

The museum’s scouts have picked out 28 works of the 18th-century artist that will go on display between Nov. 12 of this year and Feb. 25, 2013.
Yesterday at 00:30 | Alyona Zhuk
A horse lover who dreams of green tourism pastures LVIV – Stroking a small horse, Ostap Lun introduces her: “We call her Doctor Grudka.”
Yesterday at 00:14 | Katya Gorchinskaya
A landmark  since 1939 closes Tearful loyal customers and sales assistants milled around amid half-empty shelves on the last working day of Kyiv’s Central Department Store, or TsUM, before it closed for more than two years of reconstruction, starting Feb. 1.
Feb 2 at 23:15 | Oksana Faryna
Eastern European cuisine: No longer just for peasants TORONTO – Pyrohy, those mouth-watering dumplings stuffed with potato, cabbage and mushrooms, are gradually making the transition from peasant staple to high cuisine.
Feb 2 at 23:00 | Natalia A. Feduschak
A New York taste from the ‘The Veselka Cookbook’ In 1954, Wolodymyr and Olha Darmochwal opened a newsstand and candy store in the area largely inhabited by Ukrainians in New York’s lower East Side called Veselka.
Feb 2 at 22:48 | Natalia A. Feduschak
A stand-up idea in the workplace Ernest Hemingway and Nikolay Gogol would be pleased.

Both literary classics liked working while standing up at a special desk, and modern office workers are starting to realize that their habit made a lot of sense for health reasons.
Jan 26 at 23:36 | Olga Rudenko