Previous items of interest
On 13 July 2011 David Lidington MP, the UK Minister for Europe, gave a speech entitled Britain and Ukraine - Partners for Reform at an event hosted by the British Ukrainian Society.
Ancient remains uncovered in Ukraine represent some of the oldest evidence of modern people in Europe.
Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko won the final of the 2011 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize.
The 2011 Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gold Medal competition was won by Natalya Romaniw (soprano).
A fund-raising campaign has been launched for a Senior Research Fellowship in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford.
New promotional website about travel and business in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Consul General in Edinburgh reads a poem by Robert Burns in Ukrainian translation.
The University of Cambridge has announced the launch of a permanent programme in Ukrainian Studies at its Department of Slavonic Studies.
Ukrainian violist Maxim Rysanov was one of the soloists at the Last Night of the Proms on 11 September 2010 at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Ukrainian sculptor Yulia Podolska has been awarded the Society of Women Artists 2010 Bronze Age (Young) Sculptor Award.
A book (published in February 2010) by Peter Shirt who settled in Ukraine in 2005: Among the Ukrainians.
It has emerged that the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has Ukrainian ancestral roots.
Ukrainian archaeologists say they have identified the remains of HMS Prince, a British naval vessel that sank off Balaclava during the Crimean War.
The Eighth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies took place in Cambridge on 26 February 2010: Dr Gwendolyn Sasse - "Simply Ukraine: A Nation, State and Democracy Without Adjectives".
In November-December 2009 The Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge mounted a special display of diaries of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who witnessed the 1932-33 Holodomor terror-famine in Ukraine.
Ukrainian painter Ulyana Gumeniuk has been appointed Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, for two years from 1 October 2009.
Vera Rich - poet, scholar, journalist and translator, and friend of Ukraine - passed away on 20 December 2009. Times obituary
Published on 7 January 2010, the novel Bequest by Ukrainian author A. K. Shevchenko is based on the legendary Ukrainian Cossack gold supposedly deposited in the Bank of England by Hetman Pavlo Polubotok in the 18th century ...