Svitlana Matviyenko (March 11, 1976, Kamianets-Podilskyi) is a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, cultural researcher, film and media theorist. She researches the political economy of the media, the Internet, information theory, the history of cybernetics and psychoanalysis. [2]
She first studied at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Pedagogical Institute and later at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In the summer of 1998, she studied at Harvard. Her completion of her master's degree (2001) at an accelerated pace allowed her earlier admission to the postgraduate course of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
She was the editor of the literature department in the magazine "Art Line", and the editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Literatura plus" and "Komentary".
Studied the master's course "Violence and recognition in culture" at Lviv University. As a Fulbright Graduate Student Program scholar, she worked at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, United States (Ph.D. Program). [3] She presently resides in Canada. [4]
She has authored numerous literary, critical and cultural articles, poems, as well as the book "Formalism Discourse: Ukrainian Context" (Lviv, 2004).
Ukraine used to attract more than 20 million foreign citizens every year. But since 2014 this has lowered to about 10 million. Visitors primarily come from Eastern Europe, but also from Western Europe, as well as Turkey and Israel.
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is a highly ranked national research university located in a historic section of Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is bilingual in Ukrainian and English and is one of Ukraine's few universities with internationally recognized diplomas. NaUKMA takes part in numerous international university collaborations, such as the European University Association. With around 4000 students, NaUKMA is one of the smallest universities in Ukraine.
Western Ukraine or West Ukraine refers to the western territories of Ukraine. There is no universally accepted definition of the territory's boundaries, but the contemporary Ukrainian administrative regions (oblasts) of Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil and Zakarpattia are typically included. In addition, Volyn and Rivne Oblasts are also usually included. It is less common to include the Khmelnytskyi Oblasts in this category. It includes several historical regions such as Carpathian Ruthenia, Halychyna including Pokuttia, most of Volhynia, northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region, and Podolia. Western Ukraine is sometimes considered to include areas of eastern Volhynia, Podolia, and the small northern portion of Bessarabia.
Svitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer of contemporary classical music, originally from the Ukrainian SSR.
Pavlo Hnatovych Zhytetskyi was a Ukrainian linguist, philologist, ethnographer and literary historian, Doctor of Russian Literature (1908). For a long time worked as a teacher of Russian language in Kamianets-Podilskyi and Kyiv.
Ukrainian Defense Industry, also operating as Ukroboronprom State Concern, is an association of multi-product enterprises in various sectors of the defence industry of Ukraine. The company has ceased most of its activities across Ukraine since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and has relocated much of its production abroad during the war.
Serhiy Myronovych Kvit, is a Ukrainian literary critic, journalist, educator and social activist. Former champion of Ukraine in fencing (1984). Serhiy Kvit served as Rector (President) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy from 2007 until 2014. He occupied the position of Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine in 2014-2016 when the progressive Laws on Higher Education (2014) and On Science and Research (2015) were adopted. In 2015 Serhiy Kvit signed an agreement that allowed Ukrainian scientists and businesses to fully participate in Horizon 2020 (H2020), the European Union’s flagship research program.
Svitlana Petrivna Zalishchuk is a politician, public leader, journalist, human rights campaigner and former member of Ukrainian Parliament.
Victor Mykolayovych Deysun is a Ukrainian abstract expressionist painter.
Professor Svitlana Oleksiivna Shvachko is an academician of the Academy of Higher school of Ukraine and a Professor of the Department of Germanic Philology in Sumy State University.
Mikhail Minakov is a philosopher, political scholar and historian, Doctor of Philosophy. His studies focus on human experience, social knowledge, the phenomenon of ideology, political creativity, and the history of modernization.
Maryna Tkachuk is a Ukrainian historian of philosophy, Dean of Faculty of Humanities of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She was awarded the state award "Honoured Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine" in 2015.
Svitlana Vasylivna Onyshchuk is a Ukrainian government official, who is currently the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast since 8 July 2021.
Svitlana Bevza is a Ukrainian fashion designer. She is the founder and creative director of BEVZA.
Mariia Serhiivna Berlinska, or Mariya Berlinsʼka is a Ukrainian military volunteer and women's rights advocate. She was a participant in the Revolution of Dignity in February 2014 and subsequently volunteered for the war in Donbas as an aerial reconnaissance drone operator. Returning from the front, Berlinska founded a free school to train other Ukrainian military volunteers in aerial reconnaissance.
Svitlana Tykhonivna Kyrychenko was a member of the Ukrainian human rights movement. Wife of Yuri Badzjo.
Svitlana Krakovska is a Ukrainian climate scientist and head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is an applied climatologist who introduced climate models to Ukraine.