"This decision guarantees manageability, financial capacity, and effective dialogue with the cultural community," Prime ...

KYIV, Ukraine — At the thousand-year-old Cathedral of Saint Sophia here, standing on an easel in front of a towering Baroque golden altar, is a new, freshly painted icon that’s just a foot square.

In the 19th century it was the fastest-growing city in Europe; its population soared from 2,000 in 1795 to 400,000 in 1897, larger than San Francisco. “For most of its history Odessa has earned ...

The Met Opera previously dropped Russian soprano Anna Netrebko after she refused to repudiate President Vladimir Putin over Russia's campaign against Ukraine. Her discrimination case will now proceed.

World War in Ukraine Culture, Ukraine's other existential battle By Rémy Ourdan (Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine, special correspondent) Published on February 23, 2025, at 9:00 pm (Paris), updated on ...

“It is waging a war against our culture, memory and future,” Mykola Tochytskyi, the country’s minister for culture, told Agence France-Presse. He said the cathedral is the “soul of Ukraine.” ...

LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, Svitlana Panova spoke her native Russian without giving it much thought. But now, she has lost her home to Russia twice — fleeing Crimea after ...

Oscar winner Mstyslav Chernov directs this documentary about a group of soldiers fighting to retake a Russian-occupied ...

The Times critic at large tells us why Ukrainian culture plays an outsized role in the war. By Yana Dlugy Hello. This is your Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, a weeknight guide to the latest news and ...

Lithuania is a staunch supporter of Ukraine, and Mr. Kairys, believing that Russian culture could not be separated from Russian imperialism, called for a “mental quarantine” – otherwise ...

Russia is banned from world stages such as the Olympics and Eurovision, an international song contest organized by the ...