Olena Urban

PLIAMA is an abbreviation for the Ukrainian name of the Lviv Leading Bright Youth Alternative. This festival has an anti-drugs and anti-AIDS message, and was held for the fourth time already. Enthusiastic young people showed that one can live a bright and fun life without the thrills and risks of...

LVIV — Organic and genetically modified foods (also known as GMOs) have been increasingly in the media limelight. We are told we cannot eat GM foods because they have a negative effect on our immune system, brain activity, and reproductive potential. Virtually all of us have heard this, and some...

We speak very much of the Bard as a poet and much less as of a prose writer and artist. Taras Shevchenko is for us a fighter for Ukraine’s freedom, a symbol of the nation’s spiritual life and independence. But we rarely remember Shevchenko as a human being full of passions, feelings, steady tastes...