In November 2011 the newspaper Komsomol'skaia pravda (circulation: 1 million) covered our Fourth Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film, which featured new short films from Ukraine as well as the documentary feature Three Stories of Galicia . Directors Maryna Vroda, Volodymyr Tykhyi, Olha Onyshko, and Sarah Farhat were on hand...

In its summer 2011 issue, Vsesvit -- the oldest active literary journal in Ukraine, founded by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Khvyl'ovyi, and Vasyl' Blakytnyi in 1925 -- hailed the development of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies as 'a significant step toward the cultivation of a genuine understanding of Ukraine as an independent state'.

A leading expert in Eastern European history will examine whether the seeds of the liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church were sown at the 1945 Yalta conference in a free, public lecture this week. The talk, entitled 'The Ghosts of Yalta: Ukraine and the Religious Division of Europe', will be delivered by...

This month the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme screened the silent Soviet spy thriller The Diplomatic Pouch and the comedy Love’s Berry , both by acclaimed filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894 – 1956). The sold-out screening at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, held as part of the Third Annual Cambridge Festival of...