Maria Prokopenko

“You want a compliment or the truth?” asked an expert after the launch of another project in the All-Ukrainian School UF Incubator StartUp Week Finals.In fact, experts and potential investors were frank and friendly. Ten teams of senior high school students had spent a week working on...

It is a coincidence that Dmytro and I are speaking on September 10, on the 10th anniversary of the launching of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest accelerator of elementary particles, which is particularly supposed to shed light on the nature of dark matter. In essence...

On the eve of the book Ave: The Centennial of Pavlo Skoropadsky’s Hetmanate being launched at the Publishers’ Forum in Lviv, The Day asked Oxana Pachlovska, who is a writer, culturologist, professor at the La Sapienza University of Rome, as well as our contributor and friend, to tell us...

Can you imagine a full house at a popular science conference? Such that the tickets for one of its days were sold out a week before it even started. Well, how could it be otherwise when the speakers included experts from NASA, the Mars Society, the Copernicus Center, and leading Ukrainian...

Fever on the streets and a pompous cold Empire style, new privileges for the third estate and the emergence of an empire which could rival the Roman one in grandeur, although it existed for a much shorter time The history of France 200 years ago has a lot of figures that can be easily...

Irina Lindqvist, born in Kharkiv, graduate of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, has lived in Stockholm for a number of years. She majors in decorative art, using mostly metal. She emigrated to Sweden in the late 1990s, but has kept in touch with Ukraine and her Project Kultura in Motion,...

Have you noticed that science is currently talked about much more than, say, four years ago? This is kind of a positive and hopeful field. Any news about a Ukrainian scientist, especially a young one who has won somewhere or invented something, will receive thousands of likes. At the same time, we...

Says Andrii ZINCHENKO, co-founder of NGO Greencubator, launched by TeslaCamp in 2013: “We profess what we believe in. Our entire camp is using alternative energy sources. We’ve put together a microgrid and we’re demonstrating to people how this can be done. This microgrid is a...

“This project is meant to show a lifestyle ordinary people have no access to,” says photographer Oleksii ZINCHENKO, describing his series of pictures dedicated to the Romani. He took the pictures in 2016, in Volovets raion, Transcarpathia. He had been visiting with a friend when he...

“All my thoughts are now with Oleh Sentsov, who is risking his own life for the sake of all the political prisoners. We must remember that freedom is an inalienable human right, which must be protected by all possible means and through every effort. Although Sentsov is in prison, his ideas...