Svitlana Sokolova

June 6 marked Journalists’ Day in Ukraine, instituted in 1994 by Decree #251/4, signed by President Leonid Kravchuk, thus putting an end to Soviet Press Day (May 5). The new date commemorates the accession of the Journalists’ Union of Ukraine into the International Federation of Journalists in 1992...

More than three thousand works, ranging from figures barely the size of a thistle to compositions standing taller than a man, have come out from under the chisel of sculptor Oleksandr Koniayev, a Ukrainian folk master. This would be enough for a small museum of unique wooden sculptures. Yet, it...