Maria Semenchenko

A hot yellow cover immediately catches your eye. It shows two girls joining hands and holding a paintbrush and a wrench. One of them is in a dress, the other in pants, and they both smile. The idea of the illustration is clear: it is about the right to choose, feminine solidarity, and that there is...

Mattel, the maker of the world’s best-known Barbie dolls is releasing a new batch of toys called “Inspiring Women.” It comprises 17 dolls, each resembling an important and successful female figure of the past and the present. Among them are academics, sportswomen, artists,...

A smiling red-winged butterfly holds a yellow flower. In front of him, there are a tiny teapot and two teacups, rendering him fully prepared for a pleasant tea party. Nearby, one can see a butterfly girl with lilac-colored wings and a playful hair bow, she brought a cake to the event. These two...

There is a map of Europe before us. Every country is marked with a separate color. But it is not a political or a geographic map – it is about books. On close examination, you will see that it is not just colors but fragments of the covers of children’s books. In France it is The...

The young Kharkiv-based publishing house Chytarium will soon please the young readers with a Ukrainian translation of three books by Julia Donaldson, a world renowned British author. Namely Chytarium in 2016 for the first time translated and published her works in Ukrainian. Before that the lovers...

The book’s French translation saw the light of day at the Bleu et Jaune publishing house which actively maintains cultural exchange between various countries and, particularly, acquaints French readers with the history and literature of Ukraine. The translation was done by Justine Horetska....

This black-and-white clip is only one minute long, but it stirs a plethora of emotions within the viewer. The goal of this animation is not only to remind that more than 1.5 million people have left their homes following the war in eastern Ukraine, but also to show that mistrust and prejudice can...

Spring is in the air in the village of Zaitseve, a suburb of Horlivka. Mud squelches underfoot and the sky is blue above the roofs shattered by shells and perforated by splinters. The “green zone” stretching along the locals’ fields and gardens still stands bare, but it is fraught...

A photograph of Nadia Savchenko in the courtroom (see the front page)  spread over the Internet past week. Wearing the Den T-shirt, which her sister Vira managed to pass to her, Nadia wrote the only question on it: “When will you free the Ukrainians you kidnapped and are illegally...

This is a story of a schoolboy Viktor, who through a mysterious portal gets into the past where he meets the epic heroes Oleshko Popovych, Illia Muromets, and Dobrynia Mykytych, and together with them defends an outpost from cumans, reportedly by FILM.UA.The film is directed by Yurii Kovaliov, the...