Ivan Antypenko

I had good fortune to get acquainted with Den’s International Photo Contest when it was in its solemn stage, that is, the award ceremony for the winners. It is held annually in late fall.  Well-lit hall, live music, living legends of Ukrainian culture, journalism, and politics in...

On January 22, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC KP), presided over by Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, discussed the request of the Right Reverend Damian, Archbishop of Kherson and Taurica, to relieve him of his office on...

Borys Babin has been in office since August 17 last year. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko appointed a new representative in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea after activists had expressed dissatisfaction with the previous one – Natalia Popovych. It will be recalled that...

The Synii Kit Gallery, located at 18, Potiomkinska St., is hosting a solo exhibition of the local photographer Denys Maksymov, entitled “Freedom Squares: A Rehearsal.” The photos were taken last August in the framework of the Freedom Squares project, which brought together three...

Thanks to active citizens – in particular the Lviv public figure Teodor Diakiv and the Zakarpattia businesswoman Iryna Matsepura – the bestselling book The Crown, or Heritage of the Rus’ Kingdom has already enriched the collections of public libraries in Lviv, Ivano-...

The water border between Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts passes right in the middle of the Tylihul estuary (lyman) which formed on the old bed of the river Tylihul near the Black Sea. Both banks of the estuary are a nature conservation area. The adjoining oblasts have homonymous regional landscape parks...

A couple of days ago I visited one of the biggest Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz near the Polish town of Oswiecim. The place strikes with its well-thought-out cruelty and a clockwork of mass torture and murder. Striking is also the scale of this horror. It is hard to express the atmosphere...

A health rehabilitation center for the participants of the anti-terrorist operation is to be created on the basis of the municipal hospital for war invalids and veterans in Kherson oblast, state the addenda to the Draft Program for Economic, Social, and Cultural Development of Kherson Oblast for...

The oblast authorities of Kherson plan to transform the house of artist Polina Raiko in Oleshky into a Museum of Naive Art, the first in Ukraine. The intention is stated in the action plan for the regional development of culture and spirituality in 2017.The Department of Culture at Kherson Oblast...

A number of billboards have been installed in Kherson lately, their authors using the images to reflect Ukrainians’ contempt for the president of Russia. The billboards have been designed by civic activists, while the city’s government helped to find locations for them.These new stories...