Hanna Khrypunkova

The XX Sports Competition will be launched on Feb. 14, 2009 and this wintertime track-and-field event that has become traditional for Donetsk is likely to gain in scope even more. Serhii Bubka, the main organizer of the event, an Olympic champion, an IOC executive board member, and president of...

The international investment summit and the concurrent Ukraine-Poland Economic Forum was a big event for the Donbas. The coal miners’ region has never hosted events on this scale before. The presidents of the two Euro-2012 host countries, Ukraine and Poland, came to the capital of the Donbas region...

The law confirming the prestige of Ukrainian miners was long awaited. The new legislation is meant to ease the coal miners’ daily burden and improve their lives. It envisages a revision of the pay scale, higher wages and pensions, and various social benefits for miners, as well as more budget...

Donetsk city councilmen have refused to remove the symbols and attributes of totalitarianism that are still present on the streets of the miners’ capital. At issue are the monuments to Soviet personalities and the many totalitarian-era names of streets and districts of this eastern Ukrainian city....

Children in Donetsk who attend schools with Ukrainian as the language of instruction say they enjoy learning in Ukrainian. Schoolchildren and their parents alike are convinced that for them Ukrainian is the language of the future.In recent years, the Donbas region has done its best not to forfeit...

Sunday, 05:00 a.m., June 8, methane gas exploded down the Karl Marx mine shaft in Yenakievo, Donetsk oblast, run by the State Enterprise Ordzhonikidzeenerhovuhillia, at a depth of around one thousand meters, marking the largest-scale disaster in Ukraine's mining industry to date. According to the...

The anti-NATO march that took place last Thursday in Donetsk, as well as seven other cities of Ukraine, was one of the biggest protest actions against the Western military alliance ever organized in the coal miners’ “capital.” That day there were an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people on the city’s...

“Ukrainian Resurgent Army: the History of the Unvanquished” is the title of a large-scale exhibition which opened in Donetsk with the support and participation of the Security Service of Ukraine. The exhibits include 22 thematic display stands with photos, newspaper clippings, documents, and...

DONETSK — “The Country’s Development: Studying History/Creating History” is the name of the educational initiative carried out by The Day and the Foundation for the Development of Ukraine (SCM Holdings) to support the Year of Ukrainian Books and Scholarship. The action, which took place in Donetsk...

Donetsk oblast has been swept by a powerful wave of protests against corruption, although until recently local residents were indifferent to this social evil. Whereas before only 4 to 10 percent of the population of this coal-mining region was prepared to combat sleaze, now more than 33 percent of...