The Lexical Base of the Ukrainian Language as a Basis for the Vocabulary Component of the National Standard – this was the topic of the presentation given by Professor of the Department of General Linguistics S. N. Buk at the invitation of the National Commission for State Language Standards (https://mova.gov.ua). In 2024 the Commission became an associate member of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) in order to study the European experience in the organisation of certification examinations...

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“These poems of witness may be wrought from a horrendous war, composed in times of turmoil and void of leisure, yet the Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk’s mastery is evident on every page …Sometimes tender, offering surprising moments of stubbornly persisting beauty, sometimes bitter and hard, Kruk’s poems are also a reminder for the rest of the world to ‘take us in, like unpleasant medicine’.” —Judges’ Citation, Griffin...

Lost in Living: Literary Evening with Halyna Kruk

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Pritsak Memorial Library at HURI, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

A literary evening with Halyna Kruk, an award-winning Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, and scholar.
In conversation with Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, and Dzvinia Orlowsky, a Pushcart Prize poet and translator.
IN-PERSON. All attendees are warmly invited to join us for a wine & cheese reception immediately following the event.
About the Books
“We act like children with our dead,” Halyna Kruk writes...

The Ukrainian Cultural Festival is co-presented by Razom for Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv and produced in partnership with the National Ballet of Ukraine, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Yara Arts, Ukrainian Museum, KISFF, Linoleum Festival, and others and will take place October 15th through October 31st in New York.
Over the course of two weeks in October, you will have an opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of Ukrainian poetry and prose and check out the best in contemporary...