By order of Moscow tsar Mikhail I, all copies of the Instructive Gospels by Kyryl Stavrovetsky were destroyed in 1627. Ukrainian texts were removed from all church books; it was prohibited to publish anything in Ukrainian. Under the reign...
– The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) operated actively in the Donbas. Tell us more about that. Alina Ponypaliak: The Donbas has always been Ukrainian. In the 1940s, the OUN moved into the Donbas. There were people from...
Scholars and employees of the memorial research enterprise “Dolya” and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance have been conducting important archeological digs on mass burials of Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldiers (UPA)...
Engolpions* appeared in Kyivan Rus during the expansion of Christianity. The relics of saints or other sacred things were usually placed in the middle of these crosses. Archaeologists say that the images on the cross portray the spiritual...
Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine has changed the attitude people in Ukraine have to ultra-right organizations and parties. At the beginning of the war in 2014 in Eastern Ukraine people who professed extreme right-wing views...
Forgive us, Ukrainians, for sending our sons and brothers to be wounded and killed in the war every day, and this interferes with your business plans. Sorry for having such a neighbour, who seized parts of our country, shot down your plane...
In autumn of 2017, explorers accidentally stumbled on a deep hole filled with human bones (mainly human skulls) on Zamkova Hora in Cherkasy Oblast, near the historic town of Chyhyryn. The site measured 1.8m x 1m and was 1.5m deep....
In ancient times, as today, women adorned themselves with different and sometimes extravagant pieces of jewelry. Not only were they just pretty “baubles”, but they also had a special significance and many served as talismans and...
The bill is awaiting approval after the second reading. It provides for fundamental changes in a number of laws relating to the activities of the SBU (Secret Service of Ukraine), military intelligence, NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau...
About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member of the Oil and Gas Academy of Ukraine, an honored Professor Emeritus of the Ivano-Frankivsk Mechanical University of Oil and Gas....
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
