Culture
Culture
OPINION: Culture Keeps Us Warm: How Art Sustains Ukrainians During Wintertime Genocidal Attacks
As Russia weaponizes winter and targets infrastructure, Ukrainian culture endures. In dark homes and cold halls, art becomes resistance, therapy, and collective strength.
Jan. 21, 2026
Interview
Oksana Lyniv on Music, War, and Cultural Power
Oksana Lyniv’s brilliant international career has come to symbolize a new role for Ukrainian artists on the global stage. Kyiv Post presents an exclusive interview with the prominent conductor.
Jan. 18, 2026
Ukrainian AI Film ‘The Translator’ Makes Top Five in Google’s Global Film Award
Kyiv Post presents an exclusive interview with Phil Lee, the film’s creator and director.
Jan. 10, 2026
War in Ukraine
The Cinema of War
From the screens of Kyiv to film festivals around the world, the effects of Russia’s full-scale invasion are being captured through a new wave of contemporary Ukrainian cinema.
Jan. 4, 2026
Ukraine
Blackouts, The Bachelor 2025 – Top Google Search by Ukrainians in 2025
As Russia’s war nears its fourth year, Ukrainians are juggling the harshness of daily life with small escapes, such as watching The Bachelor.
Jan. 1, 2026
Kyiv
Meta-Garden in Kyiv: Sculptor Nazar Bilyk on Memorial for Heorhii Narbut
The meta-garden on Reitarska Street, Kyiv, is creating a new language of memory, where art and community are intertwined.
Dec. 30, 2025
Books
Book Review: Cities on the Edge: How Ukrainian Modernism Anticipated a Century of Upheaval
The early years of the USSR were tumultuous. For Ukrainian culture and literature, they were both hopeful and tragic. Two newly translated classics bring that world to English-language readers.
Dec. 27, 2025
Art
Tradition Translated: Ukrainian Design and the Power of the Zirka
The Christmas star that guided the three magi to the manger where Jesus was born has evolved through myth into a symbol of Ukrainian culture – pre-Christian as well as contemporary.
Dec. 25, 2025
Ukraine
OPINION: Ukraine’s 3rd Christmas of Defiance
In war-ravaged Ukraine, the holidays reflect how resistance requires not just military defense but the active construction and assertion of national identity.
Dec. 24, 2025
Ukraine
Ukrainian Films That Capture Seasonal Hope and Miracles
Kinovechir’s Ukrainian seasonal film choices are alive with tradition, warmth and messages of hope, while “Home Alone” continues to be a firm festive favorite among Ukrainians.
Dec. 19, 2025
Language Lab
Discover the Magic of Ukrainian Christmas in Online Lecture
A free online lecture explores Ukrainian Christmas traditions, from ancient folklore and superstitions to authentic decorations and the origins of “Carol of the Bells.”
Dec. 16, 2025
Ukraine
OPINION: What If This War Lasts Until the End of Our Lives?
Review of a film that tells it as it really is.
Dec. 7, 2025
Ukraine
France Celebrates Ukrainian Culture
France is launching the largest-ever Ukrainian cultural season over the next four months, where Ukrainian music, cinema, literature, visual arts, and theater will be presented throughout the country.
Dec. 2, 2025
Culture
OPINION: In Memoriam: Tom Stoppard, Playwright, Human Rights Champion – a Personal Tribute
I was fortunate to have known Stoppard in the 1970s when he was active defending Soviet dissidents, political prisoners, and victims of political abuse of psychiatry, including Ukrainian ones.
Dec. 1, 2025
War in Ukraine
From Canada to Kyiv: Art That Keeps Ukraine Visible
With a tapestry of diaries and audiovisual projects, artist Darcy Ataman seeks to remind global audiences that behind every statistic are real people enduring war.
Dec. 1, 2025
People
OPINION: Renata Bogdanska-Anders – Ukraine’s Polish Icon
On the 15th anniversary of the death of this remarkable woman, so dear to both Poland and Ukraine, her story deserves to be retold.
Nov. 30, 2025
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