Dmytro Kryvtsun

Beijing will soon get a museum dedicated to the most famous Ukrainian author, Taras Shevchenko. No, it is not a dream – the capital of China will get a cultural institution dedicated to the Bard of Ukraine for real. This is one of the most important results of Sino-Ukrainian cultural...

The article, entitled “Simulating the Reforms: Why the West Should Deny Poroshenko’s Requests for Visa-Free Travel and Financial Assistance” and published in Yevropeiska Pravda (YP) section of the Ukrainska Pravda (UP) website, prompted mostly very negative reaction in the media...

We wrote as recently as last week that August is very suitable for Russia to escalate its aggression against Ukraine. The Kremlin did not take long to appear, launching informational attacks and provocations. First, on August 6, it was reported from Luhansk that an attempt was made on the life of...

Last week a symbolical and quite extraordinary event took place in Kaniv, which is sometimes called a Mecca of the Ukrainian people. An exhibit “Unfading Fame. In honor of Taras Shevchenko” was held at the museum on Chernecha Hill, namely near Taras Shevchenko’s grave, within the...

There has been a lot of alarming news about the Donbas situation lately. More and more information shows that the aggressor – the Kremlin – may essentially intensify hostilities. The latest statements and facts are proof of this.“There were very difficult negotiations in Minsk...

The invader continues to brutalize a Ukrainian territory. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed the other day a decree to abolish the “Crimean Federal District” and make it part of the Southern Federal District of Russia in order “to increase the effectiveness of the...

The religious procession, which the media has been trumpeted about in the past month, ended with a peaceful prayer on Volodymyr’s Hill in Kyiv. There were no excesses, but since the Pan-Slavic Council on Crete the Russian Orthodox Church has been trying to show, with the help of the Ukrainian...

We have at least one high-profile case in Ukraine which has long served as a litmus test for the public, politicians, and journalists. We mean the Gongadze-Podolsky case, which has not seen legal closure in terms of identifying instigators of the crime after almost 16 years, though the public knows...

The US State Department has announced that Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, will travel to Kyiv on June 21 to discuss some bilateral and regional issues, such as reform priorities and implementation of the Minsk Agreements, with top Ukrainian...

The NATO headquarters is hosting these days meetings of the Alliance member states’ defense ministers on the eve of the Warsaw summit on July 8-9. Among the most important topics is, of course, the Ukrainian question because Russia’s aggression in the Donbas and Crimea is one of the...