In 2009 Yurii Kostenko was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to China, and Skyrda has been living and working there to the present (2011).
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In 1988 Liudmyla Skyrda went to Vienna, where her husband – Ukrainian diplomat Yurii Kostenko hold rank of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to International Organizations, soon he became the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of independent Ukraine in the Republic of Austria.
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She translated into Ukrainian the book To Build Bridges (2004), written by the Japanese Empress Michiko, delivered lectures on Ukrainian literature at Kyoto University and lectures on gender problems of modernity at Sokko Gakai University.