KYIV, Ukraine — Last year, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russian and Ukrainian are dialects of the same language, somehow forced into separate languages by Europe in order to undermine Russian ...
In 1907, Kyiv Opera staged Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Cherevychky (The Slippers) for Christmas. The plot followed Nikolai Gogol’s Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka: Vakula and Oksana, Solokha and the devil - ...