Despite war-time restrictions, Ukrainians marked midsummer with festivals that featured frenetic folk dancing, flower decorations and jumping over bonfires. The festival of Ivana Kupala on Sunday was held as Ukrainians start their third summer at war, with Kyiv and other cities hit by regular blackouts and remaining under nightly curfew amid continuing attacks from Russia. An hour’s drive south of …
Rudy Kiryl, Belarusian Ambassador to China, Ji Jinbiao, the principal of Beijing International Studies University and Wu Weishan jointly unveil the bust. Yanka Kupala, the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich, is a household poet and writer who contributed significantly to literature and theater in his native country of Belarus. A bronze bust of Kupala, created by Wu Weishan director …
