which were well-wishing songs sung by children to celebrate the new year. which might sound a little christmas-y, but an important thing to understand here is that, in pre-Christian Ukraine ...

Little did the crowd know that they were seeing the debut of a melody that would be recast by an American school teacher of Ukrainian descent and become one of the most famous Christmas songs in ...

It reminded me of winter and Christmas," she says. "Now it's more of a sad song to me because it reminds me of home, and I really want to go back." But for one Ukrainian military band, Shchedryk ...