Jul. 21, 2017
Newly founded Ukrainian tech company Nimses wants to turn all the time that people waste online into pure profit. The plan? A smartphone social media application that creates one unit of a privately d
Jul. 19, 2017
Opposition Bloc faction members have posted Hr 50 million (around $1.9 million) in bail for arrested lawmaker Mykhailo Dobkin, according to a Facebook post made on July 18 by former Party of Regions m
Jul. 6, 2017
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Coda Story website and is republished with permission. Why Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukrain
Jun. 30, 2017
When in 2000 a client filed a lawsuit against Cabot, a private U.S.-Ukrainian dental clinic, the clinic’s young lawyer Serhiy Antonov was soon at his wits’ end. The claimant was making harassing, thre
Jun. 29, 2017
The Obolonsky District Court in Kyiv on June 29 allowed an absentee trial of the high treason case against Ukraine’s fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. The judges made the ruling after a one-hou
Jun. 16, 2017
As Russia’s war rages on against Ukraine’s eastern industrial Donbas region, steel and chemical exports continue to take a hit. But as these big commodity exports whither, the country’s agricultural e
May. 26, 2017
“Frost,” a film by Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas featuring French actress Vanessa Paradis, received a standing ovation after its May 23 screening at the 49th Directors’ Fortnight, an independent
May. 26, 2017
According to a new poll, 92 percent of EU citizens who visited Kyiv during the Eurovision Song Contest in early May would like to return to Ukraine. And some 64 percent of the EU citizens said they wo
May. 11, 2017
Lots of cities have Chinatowns — areas where expat Chinese people live and do business in close proximity. And with good reason. Chinese account for nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. But th
May. 5, 2017
Many Ukrainians refuse to buy Russian goods and services, but not members of the president’s family, it seems. The 16-year-old son of Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, Mykhailo, the youngest of th
Apr. 30, 2017
One of the world’s top actresses, Meryl Streep, has called for the freeing of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in jail after being subjected to a sham trial in Russia. The U.S
Apr. 23, 2017
“I’m in (the Ukrainian town of) Konotop. They’ve made me get off the train. I cannot visit my child who is ill, as I’m banned from entering Ukraine. Therefore I’m immediately taking the train back (t
Apr. 21, 2017
Much has changed in the fortunes of the 100 richest Ukrainians over the last year, according to Ukrainian weekly magazine Focus, which has published its annual ranking of 100 richest Ukrainians. The t
Movies
Apr. 19, 2017
Kyiv will roll out the red carpet for some of Ukraine’s biggest film stars this week as the glitz and glamor of Hollywood meet the grit and grace of Ukrainian film on the red carpet outside of the Fai
Apr. 14, 2017
The Pechersk Kyiv Court has arrested Rinat Akhmetov’s shares in monopoly fixed-phone operator Ukrtelecom and its subsidiary TriMob, “protecting the interests of the state and seeking to refund the los
Apr. 13, 2017
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Oleksandr Senkevych impressed many in November 2015, when he defeated a candidate from the old local elite for mayor of Mykolaiv, a southern provincial capital with a strong pro-Ru
People
Apr. 13, 2017
Ukrainian pop singer Ivan Dorn has found himself in the middle of a scandal after making controversial comments about Russia’s war against Ukraine in an interview with a Russian video blogger. In Dorn
Apr. 13, 2017
Russia-backed separatists continue violating the ceasefire in Donbas, eastern Ukraine; one Ukrainian soldier has been killed in one of such recent attacks on Butivka coal mine, an abandoned facility,
Apr. 12, 2017
Ukraine’s Military Law Enforcement Service is to be reformed into a new military police service in 2017, Major-General Ihor Kryshtun, the acting head of the service, said during a briefing on April 11
Apr. 3, 2017
The Russia-backed separatists opened fire on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the populated area of the Butovka mine, Donetsk region, one soldier was killed in the attack, the headquar