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On This Day in History - April 26, 1986

April 26, 1986 #OTD Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and... read more

Share your favorite poem in your mother tongue!

Preferably with an English translation if it's not originally written in English, but if you just share it in your language I can find the translation myself. Here are some of my favorite ukrainian poems in English:

I'm now convinced that cleanliness in a grocery store is a cultural thing.

I came to that store (in Riga) this past Tuesday at around 2 p.m. and the floor tiles near the fruits and veggies were clean. For reference at about the same time in the same chain's Lithuanian store it would've looked like a fruit/veggie massacre had happened. Also a point is that those tiles are... (edited) read more

Where are the Ukrainian women to teach me their language?

Hello! I’m looking for someone to practice English with (I’m around intermediate level) and to help, if needed, with Ukrainian or Russian ☺️

В центрі бурі / In the eye of the storm

[Ua/Eng] Український авангард 20-30х рр. Виставка в Національному художньому музеї ім. А. Шептицького у Львові. The Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s Exhibition at the Andrey Sheptytsky National Art Museum in Lviv.