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Anna Atoyan’s paintings always attract the attention of art lovers

Arthouse erotica for Red Army Day

Issue 22, March 2010.
Over the years the Soviet holiday of Red Army Day, which was traditionally celebrated on 23 February, has come to be seen as an unofficial male counterpart to International Women’s Day on 8 March.
Foreign legion:Karpaty player Batista (right) with his Metalist colleague Coelho

Home win over Metalist keeps Lviv’s 2010 Europa Cup Dream Alive

Issue 22, March 2010.
Fans of Lviv’s talisman side can continue to dream of a 2010-11 Europa Cup campaign following a crucial late February victory over fellow top six Ukrainian league hopefuls Metalist Kharkiv.
Lviv’s Lyamon Macintosh in action

Slam city as Lviv hoop heroes dunk past Simferopol

Issue 22, March 2010.
Ukraine was once one of the powerhouses of East European basketball, and there are signs that the domestic league is finally finding its feet after years in the post-Soviet doldrums.
Olympic champion Yana Klochkova and silver medallist Denis Silantiev

The hunt for Olympic swimming talent

Issue 22, March 2010.
Multiple Olympic champion Yana Klochkova and silver medallist Denis Silantiev held a Lviv swimming master-class in February as part of their nationwide search to promote aquatic sports and uncover the next generation of underwater Olympic champs.

Legendary West Ukrainian ethno-dance troupe celebrates 40 years

Issue 22, March 2010.
One of Ukraine’s most celebrated dance troupes, the Lviv-based Yunist troupe, marked forty years of performances with a gala concert at the city’s Palace of Esthetic Education.

Flash mob honours national bard

Issue 22, March 2010.
Early March saw hundreds of young Leopolitans articipate in a flash mob action designed to honour national bard Taras Shevchenko, with each participant given a Ukrainian letter and invited to try and help recreate some of the most famous elections of the writer’s Ukrainian language works

Celebrating the arrival of spring 2010

Issue 22, March 2010.
Marmot Day (sometimes referred to as Groundhog Day because groundhogs are also marmots) has been сelebrated throughout Eastern Europe for over three hundred years and is traditionally seen as one of the indicators that winter is finally giving way to spring
Master class by Maryana Lutsyshyn

EBA mixing billiards and business

Issue 22, March 2010.
Members of the West Ukrainian branch of the European Business Association gathered on February 19 for the second annual EBA Billiards Classic Cup at a fun event supported by Lvivska Pivovarnya.
The president of the Lviv ‘s French Alliance Centre Natalya Demchuk and Fre

Lviv welcomes new French cultural link

Issue 22, March 2010.
February 19 saw diplomats and dignitaries led by French Ambassador to Ukraine Jacques Foureau celebrate at the opening of the new French Alliance centre, which is located within Lviv’s Ivan Franko National University.
Austrian aristocrat Karl Habsburg at the launch of Lviv’s new Habsburg Fou

Habsburg Past, European Future!

Issue 22, March 2010.
Lviv’s splendid Pototsky Palace provided the venue March 4 for the launch of a new foundation designed to draw attention to the cultural achievements and European heritage of the Western Ukrainian lands which were formerly part of the Habsburg Empire.