For Bevza, she has tender memories of the vibrant kalyna berry, which is ubiquitous in Ukraine. “My grandmother fed it to me whenever I caught a cold. It was extremely bitter,” she says.

Two women in Ukraine's Russian-occupied region of Crimea ... and an unnamed friend sang the popular Ukrainian "Chervona Kalyna" song on a balcony. A video of the women singing was posted on ...

A Crimean beauty queen has been fined 40,000 Russian rubles (around $680) by occupying Russian authorities for singing the patriotic Ukrainian song “Chervona Kalyna,” according to Russian ...

Additional information: "Oi u luzi chervona kalyna" is a Ukrainian song written by Stepan Charnetskyi in Halychyna [in Ukraine’s west] in early 1914. It was inspired by the last verse of a Cossack ...

There are many folk songs where kalyna is a symbol of Ukraine.” There are many folk songs where kalyna is a symbol of Ukraine. Nadia Morykvas Stepan Charnetskyi was a poet, writer, actor and ...