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…
The Cabinet of Ministers has appointed Anton Drobovych new director of the Ukrainian National Memory Institute.
Drobovych is an assistant professor at the Department of Culture Studies…
Famous American actor, film director and producer Tom Cruise has come to Kyiv at the invitation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
They met in the Presidential Office…
The BOZAR arts centre in Brussels will host the Ukrainian Spring culture festival on 15-17 March.
According to its organizers, Ukrainian Spring is the next in a series of Ukraine…
The local council has also called on other agencies of local self-government to support such a move.
A ban on the use of cultural products, namely movies, books, songs, etc., in the…
During a working visit to Israel on 18 June 2018, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin presented the film "Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die".
"The 'Cyborgs' film, which is inspired by…
Prominent Ukrainian poet Ivan Drach, one of the so-called Sixtiers, died on 19 June, parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy has announced. He was 81.
"I must make an announcement. Ivan…
Yuliya Fediv, head of the National Bureau of the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme, has been selected for executive director of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation out…
The Culture Ministry of Ukraine has put Russian actor Fedor Dobronravov, who starred in the In-Laws TV series by Kvartal 95 production company, on the so-called blacklist of persons…