Hello and Happy Easter to everyone celebrating this occasion today! This year, the cheerful and blessed day falls on the same date for both Western and Eastern Christians. All the Orthodox Christian churches held the solemn Easter services all the Saturday night long. Ukrainian ladies of all ages spend the whole night in churches while services with vigils, with their Easter food baskets to be blessed and Holy Light to be received. After this ritual people return home to celebrate Easter with meat meals breaking their fast because the Great Lent is already over! » Read more..

Hello to everyone! The whole world is ready to meet Easter, the greatest Christian feast, today on Saturday Easter Eve. Easter is at the corner, and preparations are at the full speed. Velykden – that Easter sounds in Ukrainian – means “The Great Day”, and it is really so as for Christians. It is considered to be the most cheerful and festive day for the most of believers. Ukrainian ladies have done all the housework, have cleaned their houses, have baked traditional kulichi and made a lot of various pysanky and krashanky. Easter meal has been cooked in advance, and today all the believers go to churches. » Read more..

Hello to everyone here! Good Friday, that commemorates the passion and death of Jesus Christ, is today! Orthodox Christians name this day “Great and Holy Friday”. It is believed in Ukraine, that one must do nothing today but fast and pray only. To the beginning of the Good Friday Ukrainian ladies should finish kulichi baking and, of course, egg painting. In other words, world famous pysankas should be painted till Good Friday. Oh, don’t you know what does pysanka mean? Get ye reading! » Read more..

Hello to everyone! Easter week is already in its midst, and it is Great and Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday or best known as Maundy Thursday. According to the Bible, it marks the Last Supper of Jesus Christ together with His Apostles. In Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and some other Slavic countries this day is called Clean Thursday, and it is traditionally considered to be the day when people clean up their houses and bodies. » Read more..

Even if the cherry blossoms bloom,
ours is a world of suffering.
– Issa

Hello to all! Well, now, when spring is continues to soar everywhere, flower blossoming is rather usual thing as well. Fairytale aroma of blossoming bloom spreads over the cities and towns, narrow streets and huge gardens. Ukrainian ladies take amazing photosets against the blossoming branches of white and pale pink petals. This spring bloom is really heart-touching and fantastic, so it is any wonder, then, that a large number of travelers would plan to visit Uzhgorod, Ukraine. Wonder to know why they choose to visit exactly this Ukrainian town? Simple as that, really. They try to spend a couple of days there because of sacura trees blossoming. » Read more..

Hello to everyone! Have you ever thought about the ideal lady? What does “ideal” mean for you? Does it come on physical beauty, or are you looking for an individual, vivid person with hobbies, interests and tastes? Would she be cultivated and intelligent, or better look like beauty pageants? Do you know exactly what kind of lady you want? Would your Russian lady be a cooking-and-cleaning expert, well-paid business lady, cheerful and sexy “girl to next door”? But however that may be, there is no doubt that the ancient Greeks and Romans have surely had their ideal lady, the clear example of womanhood at its best. It comes to the Venus de Milo. » Read more..

On the 7^th of April we celebrate the World Health Day. So if you want to revise your usual way of life, this is the best date to do it!

If you’d like to improve your health, there is nothing difficult. There are a few rules, following which you will feel yourself much better without reference to your age or chronic deceases. Just make these rules your everyday practice! » Read more..

Hello to everyone who is fond of playing jokes, mischief, tricks and pranks! Yes, today is the most popular day for jokers. April Noddy Day, Prima Aprilis, Huntigowk Day, Gowkie Day means the same: April Fool’s Day. Everything’s for your enjoyment today! Have a lot of fun today, don’t be so serious, but remember: there is nothing worse than an over-used joke! » Read more..

There are so many different professions nowadays, but everyone will agree that one of the most important ones are the social ones, like teachers or doctors, and we will talk about the holiday dedicated to the last ones. People of this profession have special attitude in society, they are highly appreciated, as they save life and make them easier. Unfortunately, in Slavic countries they are not much praised by high salaries, so people who still decide to choose to become a medic are almost real heroes. » Read more..