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Sumy (Ukraine)

Straw kingdom

Jul 29, 2008

This year the Ukrainian Museum of Folk Architecture and Daily Life in the village of Pyrohove, near Kyiv, again attracted the country’s best wickerwork artisans. “According to our creative council, most of the craftsmen used to...

Paying a visit to some Ukrainian Cossacks and witches in Sumy oblast

Jul 22, 2008

When someone asks you what Sumy oblast is famous for, the first thing that comes to mind is the Witch of Konotip, celebrated in the famous novel by Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. For historians, however, there are far more...

Orthodox Belarusians of Ukraine celebrate All Belarusian Saints’ Day

All Belarusian Saints’ Day has been celebrated by Orthodox Belarusian living in Lvov and Lutsk today. Divine services took place today. Heads of the underground Belarusian Orthodox Church (it existed in Belarus in 1944-1950)...

Tymoshenko to talk by telephone with governors

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has intent to hold telephone conversations with the governors of Sumy, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya Oblasts, and the Kyiv Oblast leadership, where the worst inflation showings...