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UNESCO grants Odesa’s historic centre World Heritage in Danger status

January 25, 2023901 Views

The United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO, said on Wednesday that it had designated the historic centre of Odesa, a strategic port city on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, a World Heritage in Danger site. The status, awarded by a UNESCO panel meeting in Paris, is designed to help protect Odesa’s cultural heritage, which has been under threat since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and enable access to financial and technical international aid. Odesa has been bombed several times by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. A view shows a building in the historical centre, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Serhii Smolientsev In July 2022, part of the large glass roof and windows of Odesa’s Museum of Fine Arts, inaugurated in 1899,...

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Ukrainian beetroot soup is now a UNESCO cultural heritage

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July 2, 20221000 Views

Victory on other front: Borshch declared a protected heritage at risk from Russian invasion Ukraine claimed victory in an age-old culinary dispute with Russia on Friday after the United Nations' cultural agency placed a traditional beetroot soup on its list of protected Ukrainian cultural heritage. Paris-based UNESCO announced in a statement that it had placed borshch, a rich crimson soup packed with vegetables, on a list of cultural heritage in need of "urgent safeguarding" due to the risk posed to the soup's status as an element of Ukraine's cultural heritage by Moscow's invasion. Ukrainian chef Yevhenii Marshal cooks borshch at a traditional cuisine restaurant, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 1, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Ukraine claimed ...

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Medieval monastery in Romania welcomes Ukrainian refugees

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March 16, 2022896 Views

When 75-year-old Svetlana and her family from the city of Krivoy Rog in central Ukraine reached the snow-covered Putna Monastery in the rolling hills of northeastern Romania, they had been on the road for four days. The monks living at the remote 15th century Romanian Orthodox monastery, a pilgrimage site that sits in a valley covered in dense forest, have opened its doors to people like Svetlana who have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries in their millions since Russia began its invasion on Feb. 24. Romanian Orthodox monk, Father Mikhail, departs after the mass at the Church in Putna Monastery, Putna, Romania, March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Of those, more than 400,000 people have already crossed into Romania, and numbers are expected to rise as Russia continues what...

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Lions and tigers driven out of Ukraine to safety

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March 3, 2022845 Views

A truck carrying six lions, six tigers, two caracals and an African wild dog from a sanctuary east of Kyiv reached Poland on Thursday after a two-day drive to escape the Russian invasion, a Polish zoo official said. The owner of the sanctuary had asked for help from Poznan zoo in western Poland to get the animals to safety. "They had to go a long way around to avoid Zhytomyr and other bombardment zones. They had to turn back many times, because all the roads were blown up, full of holes, impossible to pass with such cargo, which is why it took so long," said Poznan zoo spokesperson Malgorzata Chodyla. "But here they are, and we just can't believe it." A first attempt to make the journey failed after the truck encountered Russian tanks and could not get through. Chodyla ...

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Seeking summer breeze and natural getaway, Saudis flock to Ukraine

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July 8, 20211027 Views

Nabeel Kensara and Nasal Alzamzmi, a couple from Saudi Arabia, used to go for holidays to Switzerland twice a year, but coronavirus travel restrictions across Europe have forced them to discover new destinations. Ukraine, which only requires a coronavirus PCR or express test upon entry, is one of just a few visa-free countries for Saudi tourists. A tourist from Saudi Arabia takes a selfie in central Kyiv, Ukraine June 30, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Ukraine stopped all regular flights last March to prevent the spread of COVID-19 but in June resumed domestic air traffic and flights to foreign destinations. Besides traditional city sightseeing, the country offers a variety of close-to-nature getaways - from the picturesque Carpathian mountains in the west to the bustling Black S...

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Air Chernobyl! Tourists get chance to fly over nuclear disaster zone

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April 25, 20211130 Views

Ukraine eyes UNESCO World Heritage tag for abandoned plant and wasteland Ukrainian nuclear agency worker Viktor Kozlov received an unusual birthday gift from his wife Maryna: tickets for a 90 minute flight over Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. The trip gives passengers a bird's eye view of the abandoned buildings in the ghost town of Pripyat that once housed nuclear workers, and the massive domed structure now covering the reactor that exploded on April 26, 1986. On the flight, run by Ukraine International Airlines, passengers craned their necks, pointed and took pictures on their phones of the site that has become one of the country's major tourist destinations. An aerial view from a plane shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcoph...

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Turning military ammo boxes into art panels

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April 2, 20211441 Views

Visiting a military base in 2014, Ukrainian artist and icon painter Oleksandr Klymenko was struck by how much the bottom and cover of a wooden ammunition box could resemble a Christian icon panel. He borrowed one of the boxes from the base and painted a Byzantine icon featuring the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child on its cover. Klymenko said the icon looked at least 800 years old. Ukrainian artist Sofia Atlantova is pictured at a studio in Kyiv, Ukraine March 26, 2021. Instead of using regular wooden panels, artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko paint icons on the covers and bottoms of ammunition boxes brought from the eastern Donbass region, the epicentre of Ukraine's conflict with Russian-backed separatists. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich The experiment led Klymenko and his...

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Swans bask in warm waters from nuclear plant during winter freeze

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February 21, 2021834 Views

Dozens of swans have flocked to a reservoir in western Ukraine this winter, evading snow and ice to enjoy the warm waters discharged from a nearby nuclear power plant. Scientists say the birds migrate from all over Ukraine and elsewhere in eastern Europe to the reservoir, which the Khmelnytskyi plant uses for cooling and thus never freezes over. “There is no need to make an extra effort to get to the Black Sea as the birds feel comfortable here,” Oksana Holovko, head of the science and research department at a nearby national nature park, told Reuters. Since the water temperature does not drop lower than 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit), the reservoir is also rich in crustaceans and pondweed which the swans can eat. !function(e,t,c,a){if(!e.fwn&&(a="fwn_sc...

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Ukrainians enjoy skiing while others in Europe fret over restrictions

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December 29, 2020577 Views

Ukraine’s biggest ski resort Bukovel in the Carpathian mountains is fully booked until the end of year as Ukrainians have sped to it instead of other foreign resorts that have been shut due to coronavirus-linked restrictions across Europe. An aerial view shows the ski resort Bukovel amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) near the village of Polianytsia in Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine December 27, 2020. REUTERS/Sergiy Karazy Bukovel’s management said the resort had already been booked at 80% capacity through January. Bukovel, which sits 920 meters (3,000 feet) above sea level and covers five mountains in western Ukraine, attracts two million visitors each year. A tourist from Kyiv, Anton Luzhnyh, said he used to go to France to ski. “Why am I here? Because f...

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हेमंत ऋतु में दुनिया के टॉप 10 नजारे

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July 23, 20202316 Views

फूलों के रंग पर केवल बसंत का तो अधिकार नहीं। पतझड़ को साहित्यिक विवेचना में भले ही उदास मौसम माना जाता हो लेकिन दुनियाभर में पतझड़ के रंग बेहद खूबसूरत होते हैं, कई जगहों पर तो यह खूबसूरती बसंत से मुकाबला करती प्रतीत होती है। दुनिया में कोविड-19 की उदासी भले ही छाई हो, लेकिन मौसम के रंग तो खिलेंगे ही। बस गर्मियां खत्म हुई और शिशिर ऋतु आई। तो आइए डालें एक नजर दुनिया में पतझड़ या हेमंत ऋतु के 10 सबसे खूबसूरत नजारों पर मोंटाना का ग्लेशियर पार्क अमेरिका के पश्चिमी मोंटाना राज्य में ग्लेशियर नेशनल पार्क में पतझड़ का नजारा दुनिया के सबसे शानदार नजारों में एक माना जाता है। ग्लेशियर कंट्री की घाटियों व चोटियों से हरा रंग विदा लेता है और हेमंत के अलग-अलग रंग बिखरने लगते हैं, ज्यादातर यह पीला व सुनहरा और कहीं-कहीं सुर्ख नजर आता है। मजेदार बात यह है कि इस मौसम में लोगों का घूमना कम होता है...