Oleksandra Hai

Good-bye, Lenin! was named Europe’s best film last year, and we increasingly often observe young people sporting T-shirts or windbreakers with cynical legends like “USSR”; every second Ukrainian believes that a loaf of white bread costs 1.5 rubles, not hryvnias. Does this mean that the Soviet Union...

It has become the custom that the mere mention of Ukrainian fairy tales conjures up in the mind of the average Ukrainian childhood images of the Speckled Hen, strongman Kotyhoroshko, Kyrylo “the Tanner” Kozhumiaka, and the remaining fairy tale brethren who have come to dominate the popular...