May 6—8, Lviv Art Palace (17 Kopernika Street, Lviv) DE:CODED is a grandiose 72-hour festival of computer art and information technologies.

May 7—9, Rynok Square, Arsenalna Square, Pidvalna Street, Mstetska Fosa

April 20—May 1, Lviv art Palace (17, Kopernika Street, Lviv). As part of Lviv’s Easter 2011 celebrations this festival will showcase the art of folk doll making, which has a long and rich tradition throughout the rural agrarian heartlands of West Ukraine.

April 30 —May 3, Khotyn Fortress, Khotyn (Chernivtsi Oblast). This fun medieval festival will feature teams of Middle Ages re-enactment enthusiasts from all over the world descend on one of Ukraine’s most eye-catching landmarks — the ancient fortress of Khotyn.

30 April — 2 May, City Hall Courtyard in centre of Rynok Square. This will be the 9th annual‘Flugery Lvova’ethno-jazz festival and it promises to be the biggest and best yet. As usual the event will take place in the exquisite surroundings of the Lviv City Coucil’s inner courtyard sanctum, which for three days will literally become the pulsating musical heart of the city.

May 2, Lviv Art Palace, 17 Kopernika Street, Lviv Lviv has long been seen as the spiritual home of the Ukrainian language, and so it has been no surprise to see the city emerge as a bastion of the Ukrainian language publishing industry since independence in 1991.

Ukrainian Premier League, May 7 at 18.00,Ukraina Stadium, Lviv Lviv go into this top-six clash hoping to add Dynamo to their recently acquired Shakhtar scalp and with every confdence of moving one more step closer to Europa League qualifcation for the second successive season. Karpaty — currently in fifth place and on course for European qualifcation — has made a habit of upsetting Ukrainian football’s big two clubs in recent years and scored a credible 1—0 win over the Shakhtar Donetsk galacticos in early March.

May 21—22, the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora) This fun festival, dubbed ‘Hey, you Cossacks!’ is designed to bring to life the often larger than life persona of ancient Ukrainian Cossack tradition and recreate the look and mood of the bygone epoch.

April 29—May 17, Italian Courtyard (6 Rynok Square,Lviv) Bandinelli Palace (2,Rynok Square)

Late March saw an EBA Bowling Tournament at Lviv’s ‘Mi100’ entertainment centre. The EBA’s Regional Manager for West Ukraine Maryana Lutsyshyn welcomed a large field of competing executives from EBA member companies.

Popular Lviv nightlife destination Metro Club celebrated reaching the 25,000 ‘likes’ landmark on Facebook on March 18 with a social networking party with of charity goodwill

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Lviv’s wedding cake facades and manicured public parks earned the city the nickname ‘The Paris of the East’, and the Leopolitan love afair with all things Francais continues to this day.

With preparations for next summer’s European Championships heating up, one of the highlights of this spring’s Lviv Fashion Week shows was a special Euro 2012 Fashion Day held at Lviv’s Olimpik Sports Complex.

Lviv’s Opera and Ballet Theatre played host to some of the most beautiful Leopolitans in the city on April 12 at the Miss Lviv contest.

Lviv Today publisher Peter Dickinson assesses the damage being done to Ukraine’s international image by Chornobyl tourism trade. t is April again and so the traditional annual Chornobyl media frenzy is once more upon us. As this will be the 25th anniversary of the 1986 nuclear disaster, this year we are likely to see even more feature stories than usual popping up in the international press – doubly so given the additional editorial interest which has been generated in recent weeks by the ongoing crisis situation surrounding Japan’s nuclear power plants. Busloads of journalists are already en route to the Ukrainian capital and over the coming weeks they will make the pilgrimage to the exclusion zone north of Kyiv in order to experience the dubious thrill of exposure to the aftermath of Ukraine’s infamous nuclear disaster.

This year Lviv Fashion Week visitors were pleasantly surprised with not only Haute Couture presentations, but also with innovative work of Lviv’ confectionaries.