The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy announced that the #MyWar platform (https://mywar.mkip.gov.ua) has started working in Ukraine. "Thanks to it, every Ukrainian can describe…
The International Federation of Film Producers Associations FIAPF has decided to temporarily suspend the accreditation of the Moscow International Film Festival and the International…
Ukraine will present an empty display stand as a manifest at Bologna Children’s Book Fair this year, as reported by the press service of Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI), a state-run…
Any accelerated or premature reconciliation with Russia is extremely dangerous. It will be a new era of recolonization of Ukraine, where the discourse will be the same, following the old rules and using the old structures.
The Italian government is ready to rebuild the Drama Theater in Mariupol destroyed by the Russian occupiers. This became known from the message on Twitter of the Minister of Culture…
Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams have canceled their future auctions of Russian art due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was reported by The Art Newspaper. "Sotheby's will…
The Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust, which manages the literary heritage of writer Ernest Hemingway, and its manager, Michael Katakis, has stopped working with RF publishers. Chytomo…
Hyperallergic reported that the artists launched hundreds of paper airplanes at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, calling for a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Leaflets converted into…
Independence Day
Ukraine marked its 29th Independence Day on 24 August.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has honoured the memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers at the memorial near St…
Wildfires
At least five people got killed and a dozen injured by wildfires raging on the area of around 90 hectares in Novoaydar District of Luhansk Region close to the contact line…
Film centre scandal
The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, the recently renovated advanced state film archive and culture hub, has declared itself insolvent, causing an uproar against…
LB.ua has talked with the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre’s former COO Yana Barinova about the team’s activities over four years and what implications the scandal around the Centre may
have.
Coronavirus policy
After the end of nationwide lockdown on 11 May, the government plans to soften restrictions as part of the so-called adaptive quarantine, according to Prime Minister…
The government has appointed Maryna Kuderchuk head of the Sate Film Agency, according to a Telegram post by Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Volodymyr Borodyanskyy.
In September…