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Peacocks may leave Ukraine

While some trademarks are coming to Ukraine, others are leaving. Peacocks London, a budget clothing company, is mulling the closure of its Ukrainian franchise. Its representative blamed an ongoing crisis for low sales.
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General

A crazy show

Generously dressed in lights and special effects but not much else, the girls from Crazy Horse cabaret seduced, provoked and excited.

Musicians who brighten dreary subway commute

Smartly dressed Karen Vagradyan raises his expensive, custom-design violin, filling his concert hall with the stirring sound of his latest improvisation. In the distant background, a rumbling begins to rise.

Entertainment guide

Movie Listings

Editor's Note: This week is packed with films for all tastes.

The Kyiv Post recommends two major movie events in Kyiv: the Danish Triumph film festival in the Kyiv cinema, and the Chardynin 140 program at Zhovten of silent movies accompanied with live music.

Got kids? Kyiv offers them lots of weekend activities

Just because it’s cold outside, there is no reason for children to spend the whole weekend in front of the TV.

Food

Food Critic: Open, but not quite ready yet

Foodtourist restaurant opened in the Arena City shopping complex in downtown Kyiv in January. Except it didn’t fully open. According to its staff, it is working “in test mode.”

Food Critic: Help me, I’m your customer

As a single person who isn’t good at cooking and who has an empty refrigerator on most days, I am frequently at restaurants or cafes and sometimes at groceries around Kyiv.

While the city’s offerings have improved greatly since the first time I was in Kyiv 16 years ago, service is still stuck in the slow lane in too many places.

Celebrities

Like mother, like daughter: How a folk singer tries to capture the pop stage

If you keep your eyes closed and hear these two women sing, you’d think they are twins. Ageless, pure and incredibly harmonious, Nina and Tonya Matviyenko’s voices touch the audience with melodious folk songs that everyone remembers from childhood.

From L.A. to Luhansk in a minor key

When American singer and songwriter David Brown started receiving emails from Artemy Troitsky in 2000, he thought he was communicating with a Russian college student.

World in Ukraine

German economic might  dominates relationship

Ukraine's second largest investor has a large presence in Ukraine's promising market of 46 million people.

German ambassador sees uptick in economic ties with Ukraine

German Ambassador to Ukraine Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth is not new to Ukraine.

Inside Out with Yuliya Popova

Inside Out with Yuliya Popova: Parking is crazy in Kyiv, but things are looking up

One famous film quote says that men are like parking spaces: The good ones are already taken and the rest are too small.

Inside Out with Yuliya Popova: Ukrainian filmmakers missing the great stories

A two-act ballet performance lasts at least two hours. A documentary is usually half that length.

News

Gucci rigor, romance open Milan winter womenswear

MILAN (AP) — The latest Gucci woman is an enigma, combining rigor and romance in the same wisp of a body.

Rihanna could draw criticism for songs with Brown

NEW YORK (AP) — Rihanna is known for making bold statements, from her often sexually charged music to her tattoos to even the hue of her hair.