Alla Antypova

  Ukraine's first medical and social rehabilitation center for the homeless and former convicts was opened in the town of Alchevsk, Luhansk oblast, founded by Rev. Ihor Tsiatsko of the Christian Glory Church, aided by the Alchevsk City Council. The premises are a former children's daycare...

Silver Olympic medal winner Davyd Soldadze, who met the public at the city journalists’ hotel, was paid the following compliment: a lad who committed a manly act. Davyd was a bit embarrassed by this assessment of his victory, but when both his coach Mykola Rubezhny and Luhansk Greco-Roman Wrestling...

Of all the 15 countries visited by Takashi Itozawa, a 36-year- old Japanese artist and photographer, Ukraine — Luhansk oblast, to be precise — was the only one to accord him such hospitality and with such open hearts that they organized three one-man shows of his pictures in public places and with...

The Ukrainian fine arts are currently undergoing a period of brutal commercialization. How many gifted artists who used to work to orders, including those from the state, have turned into ordinary craftsmen or street peddlers! But would it be fair to blame them for their thinking more about...

Along with the Russian and Ita lian schools, specialists rank the Ukrainian symphony school among the best in the world. This is why the cooperation of the Luhansk Symphony Orchestra with its Italian colleagues is quite natural. Last year the Italians had a chance to see for themselves the virtuoso...

The first attempts to make reforms in the Ukrainian coal industry date from 1996. Previously, the industry employed 650,000 miners extracting 66 million tons of coal in 275 mines, with low efficiency (while a Ukrainian miner produced 100 tons of clean coal a year, his Russian counterpart did 200,...