– 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...
Some anniversaries are marked because they are so important historically that one cannot understand the present without returning to them. Others are commemorated because they contain lessons that remain important for today. Marking the...
A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in Ukraine because of its key findings: Ukrainians in the center of the republic suffered more than those on the...
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)...
The Holodomor was a famine in Ukraine caused by the Soviet government in 1932 and 1933. It took from 3.3 to 7.5 million lives. It is thought that the goal was to curb the Ukrainian nationalism. Even though it is recognized by most of the...
Serhii Taranenko, Head of the Scientific and Research Department of Archaeology at the Kyiv-Pechersk Preserve, told BBC Ukraine about the find. According to archaeologists, the foundation and walls consist of boulders, small rubbles of...
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...
This article is the third part of “An email to the realm of shadows,” Euromaidan Press’ series on the post-Soviet archives in Ukraine and Russia. In the early 90s, there was much hope in Russia that the historical archives...
– There’s a rather widespread Ukrainian stereotype that “Kuban is Ukraine”. In fact, everything was very ambiguous a hundred years ago. The Kuban was very heterogeneous. The population was divided into Cossacks and...
One of the most widely held misconceptions about the USSR was that borders among the various republics were both natural and fixed, neither of which was the case, and that as a result borders among the post-Soviet states are not only...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
