Serhii Shebelist

In his recent television interview on the channel TVi Yurii Andrukhovych metaphorically described the originality of symbolic landscape of different Ukrainian regions. So, in the west of the country, westwards from the Zbruch there are no monuments to Lenin, in the center they still exist but the...

Exhibition hall of the Spiritual and Cultural Center was opened in the lower church of the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Poltava on November 27. The hall serves as place for displaying icons from the 18th through 20th century that were preserved in private collections. Poltava Eparchy of the...

POLTAVA – During the five years of the Orange leaders’ “incompetent rule” Ukrainian society not only got used to endless scuffles among the recent comrades in arms or to the permanent siege of the parliament by oppositionists from the Party of Regions, but also to living...

The authors of the documentary Ukrainian prisoners in Solovky, shot in 2011 by the Poltava Oblast State TV and Radio Company Ltava (directors: Natalia Ivanchenko and Dmytro Starikov) has recently won the Viacheslav Chornovil State Prize for the best opinion-journalism work. The Day has already...

Warsaw publishing house Tyrsa, affiliated with the Union of Ukrainians in Poland, has recently published study Expelled to the Steppes: The Ukrainian Relocation from Poland to Southern Ukraine, 1944-1946 by historian and journalist Roman Kabachii. Its publication in Polish was sponsored by the...

Last week the main page of google.com was dedicated to Ukrainian scientist Yurii Kondratiuk’s 115th birth anniversary. The authors of the official blog Google Ukraine quote one of the developer of Google Doodle (a part of the interface, where on an occasion of a holiday or anniversary of a...

On the initiative of Mykola Kulchynsky, legislator and head of the Prosvita society in Poltava region, a fundraising committee was established in the hopes of financing the filming of Vasyl Shkliar’s Black Raven novel. The idea of turning the novel into a film has been around for a...