Oksana Mykoliuk

Ukrainian authorities propose to grant the children of families with ATO combatants/KIAs/ POWs the war/combat conflict victim status.Experts say this is a strategic project, considering that Ukraine claims it is at war with Russia, and the number or children as war victims is still to be...

Recently, the All-Ukrainian Children’s Hackaton “Techstars Startup Weekend IT Teens Kyiv” ended in the Ukrainian capital, its chosen theme being smart city technologies. Young students of technical schools offered innovative solutions to the important problems that concern the...

The organizers of this landscape design competition are promising a real wonder: they say we will see, for the first time in Ukraine, 30 outdoor landscape compositions. There will also be landscape installations, natural art objects, and a contest of Japanese motifs in mini-gardens ...

The Kyiv oblast was created on February 27, 1932. On the occasion of its 85th anniversary, the State Archives of the region has launched an exhibition of rare maps that show this territorial unit. The project is called “The Kyiv Oblast on Maps of the 16th-20th Centuries.” The...

“This is impossible, but it happened,” doctors at Kyiv’s reproductive medicine clinic Nadiya say about the birth on January 5, 2017, of the world’s first child whose genes have information about three people – parents and a donor.The newborn girl’s...

Four hundred copies of prayer books for blind people have been printed, an idea of the Volyn eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate, which has been realized owing to donations (over 60,000). The idea was realized by the Synod Department of Social Serving and Charity of the...

The avifauna of Ukraine has 424 species of birds, of which more than 130 are hibernating. Diseases, climate change, and natural habitat destruction are the main causes of bird deaths. The forecasts are predicting a colder streak by the end of the month, so it would not be an easy time for birds....

It is difficult to overestimate the role of volunteers in the life of Ukraine. In addition to working in the social and military spheres, people of goodwill are also saving our nature. Tourist volunteerism, when volunteers go away for several days to respond to environmental challenges, has been...

Starting on January 12, 2015, Ukrainians may apply for biometric passports. A biometric passport will look like a regular one, but will have an electronic chip implanted with personal data of the carrier, digitized photo, signature and fingerprints. The document will cost from 518 to 1,028 hryvnias...

The scope of the present forced relocation from the Donbas presents major social and economic chal­lenges. In some regions, registered re­fu­gees make up 5 percent of the total popu­lation already. That is a lot, experts say, especially since about half of all refugees have not yet...