Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, winner of the Berlin Film Festival, is sentenced to 8 years in prison, flogging, fines and confiscation of property for films and statements deemed criminal against Iran's security.
Legendary sound engineer and music producer Steve Albini, who produced albums by Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey, has died at the age of 61.
Poles are outraged by the behavior of Ukrainian singer Jerry Heil, who recorded a video wearing a sweater with the inscription "Banderaciaga. Social media users have accused her of supporting Stepan Bandera and are urging her not to vote for Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2024.
Disney CEO Bob Iger plans to reduce the number of new Marvel movies to 2-3 per year and Marvel TV series to 2 per year, focusing on quality rather than quantity.
Ukrainian singers Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil have reached the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 along with artists from Serbia, Portugal, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Cyprus, Croatia, Ireland, and Luxembourg.
Swedish artist Erik Saade performed in the Eurovision Song Contest semifinals with a Palestinian headscarf tied around his arm to protest Israel's participation in the contest.
alyona alyona and Jerry Heil performed the song "Teresa & Maria" as the fifth entry from Ukraine in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden.
ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigative reporting exposing the lavish gifts and free trips that billionaires have given to Supreme Court justices over the years. The Pulitzer Prize also honors work in journalism in 15 different categories. This year there is a special award for journalists covering the war between Israel and Hamas.
Ukraine's representatives Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil are among the top five contenders for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, and according to bookmakers' forecasts, Ukraine will share the lead with Croatia in the first semifinal.
Ukrainian audio guides and bookshelves are already present in 44 countries, including Finland, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and others. They were installed as part of initiatives to popularize Ukrainian culture around the world.
The Ukrainian Eurovision team, alyona alyona & Jerry Heil, held two stage rehearsals and two general rehearsals, including one where the jury voted, actively preparing for their performance in the semi-finals.
The first semi-final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will take place on May 7 at 22:00 in Malmö, Sweden, where alyona alyona & Jerry Heil will perform at number 5 with the song "Teresa & Maria".
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 1062 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed or damaged, most of them in Kharkiv, Kherson, and Donetsk regions.
History of Ukraine's participation in the song contest/.
The semifinals and grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will be held in Malmö, Sweden.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 begins in the Swedish city of Malmö with enhanced security measures for the 37 participating countries.
The actors of the Lord of the Rings trilogy honored the memory of their colleague Bernard Hill, who played King Theoden and died at the age of 79.
The enemy army damaged the Transfiguration Cathedral in Nikopol.
British actor Bernard Hill, known for his roles in the Titanic films and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died at the age of 79.
The Hryshko Botanical Garden in Kyiv is being damaged by unscrupulous visitors who climb over the gates and break lilac bushes.
The Prosecutor's Office of Volyn region has stopped the illegal sale of a carved stone slab from the 12th and 13th centuries depicting two angels, a historical monument of Kievan Rus.
Historian Serhiy Zhosan discovered a "Florentine treasure" of 140 silver coins from the Crimean Khanate, probably hidden during Crimean Tatar raids, in a ravine near the village of Flora in Odesa region.
The massive flowering of the narrow-leaved daffodil has begun in the Narcissus Valley, a unique protected area near Khust in Zakarpattia, Ukraine, and will continue until the end of the week.
The Louvre Museum is planning to exhibit Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa in a separate room before the upcoming Olympics to cope with the expected influx of visitors.
The Language Ombudsman's report for 2023 showed that not a single Russian song was aired on 14 national broadcasting organizations in Ukraine, with 67. 2% of songs performed exclusively in Ukrainian and the rest in official EU languages, indicating a reorientation towards the European market.
Andriy Naumenko, the vocalist of the band Nakhaba, has been serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine for six months now, mastering the profession of an aviation engineer, while not forgetting about his art.
In Ukraine, 1987 cultural institutions were affected by Russian aggression, 324 of which were completely destroyed.
The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was fined 180,000 hryvnias for not allowing inspectors to inspect the 200-year-old brotherly cells of the Brotherhood Monastery, which are being restored on its territory.
The 52 characters of the new name of the Zvirynetska station were installed at the Kyiv subway station, replacing the old name of Druzhby Narodiv.
A concert by Russian singer Anna Netrebko in Switzerland was canceled due to pressure from cantonal authorities over concerns about public order and her controversial public perception, coinciding with an upcoming peace conference on Ukraine.