Ukraina Incognita

The column “Ukraine’s Family Album” is one of the most viable in our newspaper. It is continuously filled with new family stories, yellowed photos, and invaluable evidence and...

For almost 240 years Novoselytsia’s Holy Trinity Cathedral has towered over the steppe adjoining the river Samara, over many rivers now running shallow, over the populace now degraded and...

The whole world spoke about the cardinal Yosyp Slipy, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic church (1944-84) even before the Soviet Union heard about Gorbachov’s perestroika. The American president...

Prince Volodymyr, son of Prin­ce Sviatoslav of Kyi­van Rus’, later to be­come known as Saint Vo­lo­dy­myr, is a major historical fi­gu­re. Many Ukrainians regard him as the baptizer of Ukraine-Rus’....

An outstanding personality (all the more so a genius who, unlike an “ordinary” talent, will see and hit the target which nobody else can see) can look even at the most comp­li­...

Celebrations on the occasion of the university’s anniversary will last for two days. Scholars from Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Drohobych, Donetsk, Ternopil, Mykolaiv, Sevastopol, Odesa...

Lemkivshchyna, also known as Lemkovyna, Lemkovshchina or Lemkowszczyzna in Polish, is a scenic territory traditionally inhabited by Lemkos. This territory stretches from the Beskids (a traditional...

The laws of creativity may be even a more wonderful (and often absolutely misunderstood) thing than the laws of the Universe. Indeed, why have so many brilliant oeuvres about the life and nature of...

Never before in decades had the Kyiv Opera House seen as brilliant an assembly as it did on September 1, 1911. You could see all the high society there, including those who resided in the...

  One cannot be just a historian in a totalitarian state with its intolerance of any manifestations of disobedience in the cultural sphere. There are the ever vigilant “priests”...

Ukrainophobia is spreading its wings ever more brazenly over our land (this sarcastic irony of history is by no means an invincible divine scourge: it is a natural result of our complacency,...

In the spring of 1847, Russia’s secret police crushed the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius. When arresting Mykola Kostomarov and searching his place, they found the precious...

February 20 marked the 106th birth anniversary of a writer whose works were a terra incognita for many Ukrainians. His reflections and philosophy remain very important for us — precisely...

I am happy to have written works I had dreamed about, and I know that they will be of considerable help in the spiritual life of my people, especially in the future.  Vasyl Barka Vasyl...

We remember from our physics classes that in 1667 Isaac Newton proved that white light striking a prism divides into its constituent colors, creating a visible spectrum. In a way the same is true...