Iryna Lysak

Tamara Khitko (nee Bodasiuk) was born in the urban-type settlement of Vyshnevets in Volyn oblast on Nov. 6, 1930. Codenamed Zirka (Star), she devoted almost her entire life to the struggle for Ukraine’s freedom and independence. When she was just a little girl, she became a courier for the...

A hostel for 200 foreign migrants recently opened in the village of Rozsudiv in Chernihiv oblast, on the premises of a formal military unit. Migrants can stay there for up to six months even if they are not employed. There are plans to enlarge the hostel so that it can accommodate 500 seekers of a...

Most Ukrainians don’t have any of the products from the Opishnia school of pottery in their kitchens. This is no surprise. After the Soviet Union collapsed, pottery stopped being mass-produced and turned into a rare craft. We started buying boring Chinese products or expensive, foreign-made...

For the first time in the history of The Day’s Library Series a book has won a prize for its design rather than its content. Klara Gudzyk’s Apocrypha consists of seven chapters: “Ecclesiastical Affairs — at the Turning Point,” “Social Mosaic,” “A Flashback to Historical Moments,” “A Few Portrait...

“Zhukiv Island is a little piece of paradise on earth,” says Vanda Kovalska of Korchuvate, who has been fighting against the cruel treatment of her beloved Zhukivka for a long time. When Kovalska and her husband were choosing a place to build a house 50 years ago, they selected a piece of land...

Ukraine is more at risk from garbage than political crises. It is a monster with a thousand faces formed by the world’s leading labels and brands. To realize the scope of this problem, you don’t have to consult an ecology textbook that reads, “A huge amount of garbage has accumulated in Ukraine,...