On January 12, Ukraine celebrates Ukrainian Political Prisoner Day, initiated in 1975 by Vyacheslav Chornovil. This day honors Ukrainians who suffered for their beliefs, particularly during the repressions of 1972 and the ongoing Russian aggression.
A petition has been registered in Kyiv to rename the Akademmistechko metro station to Vasyl Stus. The author of the initiative, Serhiy Shevchenko, justifies this with historical, symbolic, and practical reasons, including the fact that the poet lived and worked in this area.
On August 2-3, the V International Literary Festival "Frontera" took place in Lutsk, gathering authors, translators, and journalists from various countries. The charitable foundation "MHP-Hromada" and "MHP-Buffalo" joined the partnership.
In Lviv, Ihor Kalynets, a Ukrainian poet, dissident, and long-term political prisoner of Soviet camps, died at the age of 86. He was convicted in 1972 for his poems and was held in Perm concentration camps along with other prominent Ukrainians; he is also a laureate of the Shevchenko Prize.
Serhiy Zhadan, Akhtem Seitablaev, and other cultural figures joined the #unread_poems project. The initiative aims to revive the work of little-known poets who were killed in the 1920s and 30s.
“The Stus. Center, together with its partners, is starting work on a new 14-volume edition of Vasyl Stus's works. The first volume is scheduled to be released in January 2025, and pre-orders will start soon.
On October 21, a minor girl born in 2012 fell out of the 9th floor window of a high-rise building in Ivano-Frankivsk. An investigative team, juvenile police officers and forensic experts are working at the scene.
Representatives of different units are once again leaving commemorative inscriptions and stickers on the ceiling at the entrance to Donetsk region, after little-known "volunteers" painted over the inscriptions that soldiers have left there since 2014.
A special issue of the Local History magazine about writer, dissident and human rights activist Vasyl Stus will be presented on April 23, featuring memories of his childhood, interviews with his family and researchers, and information about his native village.
For the first time in Ukraine, a 6,000-year-old fabric was presented in a museum in Cherkasy region.
