Inna Filipenko

The question of when Ukrainians should receive their official status as pensioners has long been discussed in this country. There are a lot views on this problem, with arguments both for and against raising the retirement age. According to sociologists’ findings, Ukrainians themselves do not have a...

Meeting a famous person is always inspiring, especially for young people, who always seek someone to look up to – a good role model. Such meetings recently took place in KyiV: nearly 50 young women from all over Ukraine spoke with the US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer...

Finding a job after graduation is especially difficult this year. First, almost all employers require work experience, which is difficult to get while studying at a higher educational establishment. Second, there long has been an imbalance between demand and supply of professions on the job...

While European countries struggle for an ecological balance and protect their existing greenery, Ukraine, in particular its capital, goes the opposite way. Kyiv’s parks and public gardens are under the threat of destruction. It concerns almost 400 hectares of green zones in the downtown and about 3...

Ukrainian girl for the first time wins the most prestigious junior tennis championships. Ukraine has received yet another tennis star, with Elina SVITOLINA winning the French Open Tennis Championship at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Sunday June 6 (the first one was Andrii Medvedev in...

Ukraine is once again happy to greet Vitali Klitschko with a victory. On May 29 the WBC heavyweight champion defended his title defeating the Polish Albert Sosnowski by TKO in the tenth round at the Veltins-Arena Gelsenkirchen in Germany. The official website of the German RTL Channel quotes...

What does the word “oreli” mean? According to the dictionary it is a swing or cradle used for babies shortly after their birth. It is also a name of the children folk festival which has been held for three years already by the Ivan Honchar Museum Ukrainian Centre of Folk Culture...

For already about a month the National Museum “Chornobyl” has embraced a new form of excursion – using informational terminals, TV sets, projectors, players and other modern technologies. They managed to buy the new equipment owing to the support of the government of Japan, which allotted over 74,...

Spring has come, and the Ukrainian bikers are getting prepared to set off, following their varying routes. Although these people love freedom and independence, they are aware of sharing highways with other motorists. The relationships between the former and the latter are peculiar, now and then,...

School and college students are the most frequent visitors to libraries, simply because they need information to carry out their assignments. People seldom come simply to read books. A mere 22 percent Ukrainians visit libraries, according to a poll carried out by the Kyiv International Institute...