Gunia wasn’t supposed to be a brand about Ukraine,” says co-founder Maria Gavryliuk in the company’s downtown Kyiv office as ...

In western Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains ... then the snow would hiss and the hatchets (part of a Hutsul costume) would glisten in the sun, and the carollers would rejoice,” he says.

considered a dialect of Ukrainian, is a mosaic of words from Polish, Hungarian, Armenian, Russian, Romani and others. Many names for specific items and activities are unique to the region. An old ...