“History of Ukrainian IT” is a new documentary about the development and achievements of the industry over the past 30 years
The Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov presented a documentary film about the history of Ukrainian IT. In the 46-minute long tape, the direct participants…
Review of the book “Perfectionists. How engineers created the modern world”
We read an interesting non-fiction book by the famous English journalist and writer Simon Winchester. The book is called “Perfectionists. How engineers created the modern world.” This…
Ukrainians around the world celebrate Embroidery Day. Photo
May 19, 2022 Author of the photo, photo by Victoria Yaskevich Caption to the photo, Ukrainian Victoria Yaskevych in an embroidered shirt in Austria Ukraine celebrates Embroidery…
Laser weapons of the Russian Federation. Can it change the course of the war?
Tom Spender BBC News May 20, 2022 Photo by Getty Images Caption to the photo, Ukrainian soldier demonstrates weapons to combat drones The Russian Federation has announced…
"I have fulfilled the will of the Ukrainian people – to destroy the USSR." Quotes from Leonid Kravchuk
2 hours ago Photo by Getty Images Leonid Kravchuk has always been considered an excellent speaker and interlocutor. Quotes from his numerous interviews and speeches have been…
Participant in the war with the Nazis about Russia's attack: "Mad Jackal"
2 hours ago World War II veteran Olga Tverdokhlibova called the military registration and enlistment office in Vinnytsia to remind her that she could shoot well. The…
Britain’s civilised tolerance of Second World War conscientious objectors should make us all proud
Early in the Second World War, pacifist Roy Ridgway was asked by a policeman what he would do if he were approached by a German parachutist. He…
Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter, review: behold the Alan Partridge of adventuring
Never mind Bear Grylls – is anyone living a more Boy’s Own adventure existence than Ross Kemp? We’ve had Ross Kemp: Alive in Alaska, Ross Kemp on…
Gnomes, grottos and tame hermits: the weirdest English gardens in history
Lamport Hall is one of Northamptonshire’s nicer mansions. Remodelled in the 1650s by Inigo Jones’s acolyte John Webb, and again by the Smiths of Warwick a hundred…
‘Don’t pretend the Vikings weren’t violent’: the grim truth behind The Northman
Written with Icelandic poet Sjón, The Northman is Eggers’s third film. It follows The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019) which, like The Northman, blended psychological intensity,…
If only this exhibition about the Duke of Wellington and his lady friends wasn’t so po-faced
The Duke of Wellington, born Arthur Wellesley in 1769, war-hero of Waterloo and adept politician was also well known as a ladies’ man. Cartoons from the period…
Trapped in Ukraine’s Soviet Disneyland: a ‘Remainer’ in separatist Donetsk speaks out
As a pro-Ukrainian in the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic, journalist Stanislav Aseyev is not so much a rare beast as an endangered species. When separatist militias seized…
Trapped in Ukraine’s Soviet Disneyland: a ‘Remainer’ in separatist Donetsk speaks out
As a pro-Ukrainian in the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic, journalist Stanislav Aseyev is not so much a rare beast as an endangered species. When separatist militias seized…
The real Bond? How Hollywood overlooked the other Fleming brother
“’One reads Fleming… for the pleasure of meeting an Elizabethan spirit allied to a modern mind,” wrote Vita Sackville-West in 1934, and for the rest of the…
A chilling account of life under siege, by the Anne Frank of Leningrad
June 22 At quarter past 12 the entire country heard [foreign minister] Comrade Molotov’s speech. He announced that at four o’clock this morning, without any formal declaration…
Art That Made Us, review: a great idea but the talking heads talk too much about themselves
But it turns out that some people – artists, mostly – want to insert themselves into the picture. We start with Antony Gormley admiring a beautiful little…
The ‘Nazi porn’ TV train rolls on – and so does its Churchillian interpretation of history
There is then much debate about whether Chamberlain thought he had bought time by refusing to fight over the Sudetenland, or whether he genuinely thought, in his…
Drunken arguments, teenage conquests: Alexander before he was Great
Some of the stories about the early life of Alexander the Great are wonderful. At a young age, he questioned ambassadors from Persia not about childish things,…
The war Hollywood won’t touch: where are the big-budget films about the Falklands?
Cinema returns to the same conflicts time and again. For the generations born after the Second World War, the popular image of history’s greatest battles come from the…
Think Magellan circumnavigated the globe? Wrong!
Typical is his description of the attractions of Brazil: “reputed longevity, abundant food, generous sexual hospitality, and women with insatiable sexual appetites”. The logs of Andrés de…
How the Dudleys played Tudor snakes and ladders – and lost spectacularly
A series of high offices followed in rapid succession: military commander of the Scottish borders, high admiral, governor of Boulogne, envoy to the King of France. More…
Did Thomas Edison murder the real inventor of cinema?
The trial’s catalyst was the disappearance of Le Prince, who, two years after shooting the garden scene, had boarded a train in France – and was never…
I went to Vienna to trace my Jewish family’s tragic history – but found hope too
An unpublished memoir “On March 11 1938, a Friday, everything changed and would never be the same again,” my 95-year-old grandmother Erika Renate Przibram wrote in her…
Stalin lost Kyiv in 1941 – and Putin is repeating his mistakes
An uneducated, former manual worker who liked to drink, Voroshilov’s chief qualification for the job was that he could out-toady anyone when it came to sucking up…
Punchdrunk interview: ‘Audiences are human – they sometimes misbehave’
While the company has been busy establishing itself as a global brand, most notably with their acclaimed riff on Macbeth, Sleep No More, which opened in New…