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Five lessons for today from the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Some anniversaries are marked because they are so important historically that one cannot understand the present without returning…
Stalin’s terror famine killed Ukrainians at twice the rate of other nationalities, HURI study says
A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in…
‘Overwhelming majority’ of urban Ukrainians patriotic, poll finds
Ukrainian nationalism is often viewed as primarily a rural phenomenon, but a new poll conducted by three leading…
Kazakhstan’s secret services harass activists in Ukraine, Russian political refugee says
Aleksey’s story is quite interesting. A businessman from Nizhny Novgorod, he became actively involved in a Russian protest…
Russia betting on internal conflict in Ukraine
The Ukrainian state has taken two independent actions which have obliged Russia to accelerate its preparations for intervening…
On hunger strike since May, Oleg Sentsov is ready to die in protest against Putin’s imperialism
Everyone has heard of Jan Palach, the young Czech student who set himself on fire on January 19,…
Kyiv needs to help Ukrainian tourists abroad be independent of Russians
Kyiv wants its diplomats to promote the independent identity of Ukraine abroad, Delovaya stolitsa reports; but it has…
Traditional Hutsul wedding in the Carpathians (photo report)
The wedding lasted two days although in many villages celebrations continue for three full days. On Saturday, the…
Mass graves of UPA & OUN partisans discovered in Ternopil Oblast
Scholars and employees of the memorial research enterprise “Dolya” and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance have…
The liars of Kremlin dance on the graves of famine victims
The Holodomor was a famine in Ukraine caused by the Soviet government in 1932 and 1933. It took…
Remnants of a 12th century unique medieval fortification wall discovered in Kyiv
Serhii Taranenko, Head of the Scientific and Research Department of Archaeology at the Kyiv-Pechersk Preserve, told BBC Ukraine…
900-year-old relic found under church floor in Busk, Lviv Oblast
Engolpions* appeared in Kyivan Rus during the expansion of Christianity. The relics of saints or other sacred things…
Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts save $6 billion annually: Report
To tackle corruption, the Ukrainian authorities have been focused on narrowing corruption opportunities through reforms in different sectors…
Prisoners of state secrecy: How Russia aborted its “archival revolution”
This article is the third part of “An email to the realm of shadows,” Euromaidan Press’ series on…
Craftsman from Lviv makes hurdy-gurdies
Hordiy Starukh was only 3 years old when his mother took him to a concert where he heard…
83-86% of the Black Sea Cossacks in Kuban region were Ukrainian
– There’s a rather widespread Ukrainian stereotype that “Kuban is Ukraine”. In fact, everything was very ambiguous a…
Ukrainian neurosurgeon develops unique implant for treating neck trauma
Oleksiy Nekhlopochyn studied at the Luhansk State University of Medicine, and he completed his internship in Donetsk. Afterward,…
Stalin frequently modified Russia’s borders, adding and subtracting territory, Butakov says
One of the most widely held misconceptions about the USSR was that borders among the various republics were…
Divorce of Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions: will it affect the investigations against top-corrupts?
However, if NABU is praised nearly unconditionally, SAPO is always spoken about with additional remarks – “not totally…
Ukrainian public tolerates violence in the name of independence, says ultra-right movements researcher
[editorial]In an interview conducted by Natalia Malynovska of Glavcom, Vyacheslav Lihachev claims that the Ukrainian public tolerates violence committed…