"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ukraine’s feature-film industry has been dramatically slowed down because of the Russian invasion; though some movies – such as “Against All Odds” — have still managed to be released.

“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.” ...

The country’s ministry of culture estimates that over 480,000 artworks have fallen into Russian hands. At least 38 museums, home to nearly 1.5m works, have been damaged or destroyed.

Culture March 17, 2022 The War of Words Between Between “Rashka” and Ukraine On the culture front between “Rashka” and Ukraine.

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 ...

“This fight went on 300 years ago, is going on now and will be going on forever. Ukraine as a nation and a culture will withstand, and the enemy will be dismantled,” Trubenok said.