Olena Sokolynska

Moscow nights turn out to be not so safe for those whom the Kremlin once used to kindle war in Ukraine. Russia has announced that Yevgeny Zhylin, head of the terrorist organization Oplot (“Bulwark”), was shot dead at a restaurant in Moscow’s elite suburb of Gorki-2. It is he who...

The year 2016 of the newspaper Den and our readers started with a nice event: on the Old New Year’s Eve and Malanka, marked 19 years since Larysa Ivshyna became the head of the newspaper. The symbolical celebration of this anniversary became for the editorial office and our readers a reason...

The 9th international 4th Block eco-poster triennial, one of Ukraine’s most brilliant art events, has come to a close in Kharkiv. Winners have been announced and the two-week-long master classes, lectures, and expositions have been analyzed. Organizers say this year’s “visual...

We met Professor Ihor Malitsky in Kharkiv after he had come back from Poland, where he took part in the ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp [the town’s Polish name is Oswiecim. – Ed.]. Malitsky was kept in this death...

Two roof climbers from Kharkiv raised a flag of Ukraine on the Derzhprom’s TV tower on the night of September 11, but the Kharkivites could see it unfurled only from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. on the following morning, as the flag was removed by the beginning of the working day.Kharkiv artist and roof...

The wounded servicemen, now recovering in Kharkiv, show stunning strength of mindThe Ukrainian military, wounded in a counterterrorist operation in eastern Ukraine, are undergoing medical treatment in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, and other cities. The Kharkiv-based Military Clinical Center...

Borys Mykhailov’s works could be seen in London, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, New York, Tokyo, and Beijing… People on all the continents applauded to Mykhailov and gave him prestigious awards. But not in his home city of Kharkiv. There his exhibits used to be closed down and prohibited...

Artworks painted on the walls protect the urban space from hooligan painting. This is the conclusion drawn recently by the Kharkiv-based experts from the Center IA “Maidan Monitoring.” They have analyzed the street art in Ukraine’s four cities, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, and Simferopol...

The preparatory part of the US-Ukrainian project to install a nuclear reactor on the territory of the Kharkiv Physics Technology Institute (KPTI), near Piatykhatky, is over. The decision about US technical assistance in exchange for Ukrainian nuclear material was made as long ago as at the 2010...

Establishment of a training and practice center at the Kharkiv National University of Radio and Electronics (KhNURE) has been welcomed by students and faculty alike and provided new opportunities for the development of IT in Ukraine. “Outsourcing means hiring outside experts to perform a task...