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Vyshyvanka Is a Symbol of Ukrainian Soul

Vyshyvanka Is a Symbol of Ukrainian Soul

Since olden times, an attitude towards clothes was tremulous and respectful in Ukraine. Embroidering clothes for their children, mothers put all their tenderness and prayer to God for safety of dear children. Ukrainian vyshyvanka served not only as a decoration and talisman but also as a kind of document by which it was possible to [...]

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Lilia Podkopayeva: Olympic Champion in Artistic Gymnastics

Lilia Podkopayeva: Olympic Champion in Artistic Gymnastics

Today, I’d like to tell about Olympic Champion in Artistic Gymnastics Lilia Podkopayeva who lives in Donetsk. In the history of Donetsk sport, she remains to be the last person, so far, who was able to reach the highest step of the podium. She was born in Donetsk. Lilia was enrolled in gymnastics classes in [...]

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Happiness of the Ukrainians Is in the Family and Children

Happiness of the Ukrainians Is in the Family and Children

Sociological studies have shown: almost two-thirds of Ukrainian people get the most satisfaction from family. Successful family and many children are the happiness of Ukrainians. Friends are on the third place. Money is on the fourth place. Then, television goes. Only one in five Ukrainians are satisfied with their job. Just 3% of Ukrainians are [...]

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American Beauty vs Ukrainian One

American Beauty vs Ukrainian One

It’s not a secret that beauty still rules the world. People are not indifferent to the beauty whatever has changed in society. Century succeeded each other, and standards have changed, but the desire for beauty in everything remained unchanged. Design, painting, fashion… As in the past, we want to perfect ourselves, and, above all, we [...]

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Moral Values of Slavic Women

Moral Values of Slavic Women

Whatever the family structure has been in all societies and at all times, woman is the foundation of the family. Wife is a home. Women’s nature is completely different from the men’s one. Namely because of this fact, women deserve a special treatment. That is why she initially has other responsibilities and rules of conduct. [...]

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Each Thirtieth Ukrainian Marriage Is Registered with Foreigner

Each Thirtieth Ukrainian Marriage Is Registered with Foreigner

During last decade, Ukrainian women have started more actively seek for husbands abroad. Most often, potential brides are Ukrainian girls from Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov, Odessa, Nikolayev, Dnepropetrovsk, Crimea, and Kiev. In recent years, Ukraine, for foreigners, has become a popular place to look for brides. The desire to tie fates with Ukrainian girls is most [...]

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Ivan Kupala Day or The Night of Pagan Magic

Ivan Kupala Day or The Night of Pagan Magic

Ivan Kupala Day, along with Maslenitsa, is another popular pagan holiday of the Slavs. Like Maslenitsa, Ivan Kupala Day is a very interesting and colorful feast that ends the summer solar cycle of the calendar of pre-Christian holidays. Ivan Kupala is the national holiday of pagan origin. It is celebrated by Eastern and Western Slavs [...]

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The Shortage of Men in Ukraine Is Almost 3.6 Million People

The Shortage of Men in Ukraine Is Almost 3.6 Million People

Many Ukrainian women stay single or try their luck with the foreign men. The problem is the shortage of men in Ukraine. Many categories of women in Ukraine have already experienced it and, very often, these single women are far from the retirement age. In general, Ukrainian men live less than all men in Europe. [...]

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Ukrainian Women’s Love Will Save the World

Ukrainian Women's Love Will Save the World

“Love will save the world.” “The salvation of man is in love and through love.” [V. Frankyl]. Many thinkers and artists would agree with these phrases. One talented psychologist said: “The reason of your problem is in the lack of love, because it is the reason of all problems.” Love is the feeling that a [...]

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Modern Ukrainian Wedding Traditions

Modern Ukrainian Wedding Traditions

Modern Ukrainian traditional wedding is a set of customs and rituals of different ages and nations; moreover, these customs and rituals are closely intertwined with each other. Exceptionally, only a few ethnic groups will be able to boast of the purity of the saved ritual while the others have ceased to perceive the boundary between [...]

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True Slavic Femininity vs Western Feminism

True Slavic Femininity vs Western Feminism

I studied in women’s college, where the ideology of feminism dominated. So, I think that girl is not only a family and children. She can present by herself something more. She must be regarded primarily as a person.  Jessica, 29 years old. This is an extract from an interview of the young girl Jessica who [...]

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Collapse of the Marriage Institution

Collapse of the Marriage Institution

The last two decades can be named as the beginning of the era of collapse of the marriage institution. More and more young people refuse to burden themselves with family. More and more women refuse to marry and give a birth. In mass media, this phenomenon is called the crisis of family relations. However, there [...]

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Alla Perkova: Exciting Mermaid from Odessa

Alla Perkova: Exciting Mermaid from Odessa

Attracting the admiring glances magically, long hair has been always symbolized the beauty and health, majesty and power, strength of will, patience, and diligence at all times. It occurs because long hair, transforming women to the deity and ennobling her, in fact, require a special painstaking care. However, the vagaries of a luxuriant long hair [...]

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8th of March is Women’s day in Ukraine

8th of March is Women's day in Ukraine

Today, there is no International Women’s Day (March 8 ) on the calendar of the democratic and independent Ukraine. Orthodox Christians have never recognized this “holiday” at all; they affirm that they have another day that is the The Myrrhbearers, which is celebrated on the second Sunday after the Resurrection. Nowadays, almost no one remembers [...]

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Valentine’s Day Is Not a Ukrainian holiday!

Valentine’s Day Is Not a Ukrainian holiday!

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of all the taboos and conventions, Ukrainian people began to adopt Western customs and lifestyle strenuously. Since then, they have been often neglected their own traditions that were evolved over centuries and reflect their values, mentality, and identity more fully. Celebration of Valentine’s Day (February [...]

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Why Don’t You Like Your Women?

Why Don’t You Like Your Women?

For many men the question “Why don’t you like your women?” can be rhetorical as the answer is obvious. A 42-year-old American who was born in Texas answered the question like this: “Firstly, they are not so beautiful. In some American cities, you can spend a whole day on the street and find only one [...]

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Ukrainian Bellydance Beauty: Alla Kushnir (Leila)

Ukrainian Bellydance Beauty: Alla Kushnir (Leila)

Alla, on the stage, is, if I may say so, one big emotion. Dance is a dance; technique is a technique; but the strategy, tactic, and the most important “shock” weapon of the beautiful dancer is the feeling, the passion she puts into each movement. Despite her youth, Alla is the winner of numerous international [...]

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Ukraine’s Got Talent: Amazing Sand Art

Ukraine’s Got Talent: Amazing Sand Art

“Ukraine’s Got Talent” is an analog of British television show. In 2009, there was born a new star. The winner of the fourth semi-final talent show “Ukraine’s Got Talent” became 24-year-old Kseniya Simonova from Evpatoria who draws a picture using volcanic sand. An emerging story line was gradually flowing from one image to another in [...]

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