The North Atlantic Treaty was signed on April 4, 1949. In the preamble, the founding countries of NATO pledged to protect the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, based on the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the...
As of December 2021, when the Russian/Ukrainian war was already going on, but the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine had not yet begun, 57,000 women served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, almost 22% of the Armed...
Russia constantly claims to be a “peacemaker” who strives for peace. Since the beginning of the military conflict in Ukraine in 2014, there has been a constant narrative about “saving” those whom this country seems to come to protect. This...
Kharkiv architecture is experimental by its nature, and imbued with symbols. Red bricks and two-storey houses of the 19th century, constructivist memorial sites, co-operative buildings (the name of a prestigious co-housing project of the Soviet era), and first cultural hubs...
In 2008, Oleksandr Kosovan, a student at one of Kyiv’s universities, founded MacPaw, a company which has at its core two key tenets: a passion for discovery and a love for Apple products. Now it operates internationally, and it is...
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In 2014, during the revolution of dignity, architect Viktoriia Yakusha felt the need to scale the Ukrainian cultural code globally, so she founded the Faina Live Design Brand. Since then, its furniture and other interior items have gained international recognition,...
The construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP — tr.) resulted in 90% of the river being regulated by dams and reservoirs. Since then, the Dnipro has been blooming periodically with algae. A group of scientists from the Institute...
A desire to create a high-quality and worldwide recognizable product pushed Oleh Vlasenko to found the Ukrainian backpack brand Huru in 2014. Their first backpack crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter had an overwhelming success: they raised three times more money...