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Ukraine was a Guest of Honour at the Festival of European Literature held November 15-18 in Cognac, France
23 November, 2012
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Alla Lazareva
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The Ukrainian Week talks to Sophie Jullien about this year’s LITTERATURES EUROPEENNES COGNAC festival and Ukraine as its Guest of Honour.
23 November, 2012
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Kateryna Koval
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The Ukrainian-born British writer Anna Shevchenko talks about her debut novel Bequest and history for the mass audience
23 November, 2012
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Alla Lazareva
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The exhibition of Johann Georg Pinsel, a master of Ukrainian baroque sculpture, is the first cooperation between the museum that is well-known throughout the world and Ukraine.
23 November, 2012
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Alla Lazareva
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Professor Kostiantyn Tyshchenko speaks about the role of modern linguistics in our identity and the rebuttal of the cradle-of-three-brotherly-peoples theory
16 November, 2012
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Ilko Maidachevsky
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Josef Winkler talks about contemporary Austrian literature, historical memory and linguistic virtuosity
15 November, 2012
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Hanna Trehub
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The twist-filled plot of the film Ivan Syla (Power Ivan) is based on a real person, Ivan Firtsak, a Ukrainian from Transcarpathia who was a famous circus athlete and boxer and performed in 64 countries of the world. He became a legend in his own lifetime.
14 November, 2012
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Oleksandr Havrosh
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How the British agent became a global hero
6 November, 2012
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Michael Binyon
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The theme of Ukrainian insurgency as a component of mass culture
2 November, 2012
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Rostyslav Semkiv
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Antin Mukharsky, a TV host, theatre actor and artist, told The Ukrainian Week about Russian mass culture in Ukraine, nouveau riche and booboisie art
1 November, 2012
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Bohdan Butkevych
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American readers and editors prefer more edgy cartoons these days
23 October, 2012
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Dmytro Hubenko
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Must-sees for every Ukrainian tourist who visits the French capital include the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de Cluny, and so on. But Paris also has many places linked to Ukraine…
22 October, 2012
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Svitlana Kravchenko
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Ukrainians seem to see Kryvyi Rih, a city of almost 700,000, in light of its not being an oblast centre and being limited to metallurgical giants.
19 October, 2012
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Ukraine lacks adolescent books by local authors and those writing for teenagers avoid controversy and depict the world through rose-coloured glasses.
12 October, 2012
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Olha Kupriyan
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American director talks about Savages and the nature of human violence
11 October, 2012
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The Ukrainian Week
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The end of August saw the start of the filming of Strong Ivan, the currently little-known story about Ivan Firtsak, a Ukrainian who was recognized as the strongest man in the world in 1928
28 September, 2012
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Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovsky
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Serhiy “Foma” Fomenko speaks about the Kyiv school of rock, music exports and his willingness to work with the opposition
14 September, 2012
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Bohdan Butkevych
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Normandy in Painting: an art history guide and escape from an industrial estate
14 September, 2012
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Taras Filenko speaks about Mykola Lysenko’s contribution to studying and systematising folk melodies and his impact on the world music process
6 September, 2012
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Olena Chekan
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A feature documentary by director Oleksandr Balahura is a summary of the past 15-20 years in Ukraine of sorts
30 August, 2012
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Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovsky
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Dagmar Ostrzhanska, director of the Czech Centre in Kyiv tells The Ukrainian Week of Czech-Ukrainian cultural relations, the Ukrainian art underground and the language inactivity of our compatriots.
30 August, 2012
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Yulіya Stakhіvska
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Serhiy Havrylov, scriptwriter and creative producer, on Mykyta Kozhumyaka, the first Ukrainian full-length 3D-cartoon
29 August, 2012
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Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovsky
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For now, Bohdan Stupka is remembered as the actor who conveyed the entire range of human emotions, feelings, actions and characters on the screen, transforming from Bohdan Khmelnytsky into Ivan Mazepa and Leonid Brezhnev, a Ukrainian guerilla fighter or a KGB officer, a priest or an atheist father.
3 August, 2012
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Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovsky
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In spite of the rapid development of comic books in Ukraine, the genre rarely captures wide public attention. The Ukrainian Week takes an insight into why this is the case
1 August, 2012
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Olena Maksymenko
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Greifswald University — a centre for Ukrainian studies in Europe
31 July, 2012
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Dmytro Hubenko
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Chaos with music copyright protection is killing Ukrainian music
26 July, 2012
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Bohdan Butkevych
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