Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
Russia has never had a state in the normal sense of the term and does not have one today, Aleksey Polikovsky argues; instead, it has been and remains far more like the chiefdoms that have existed in various nomadic societies, Dmitry...
Ukraine took part in all stages of European history The history of Ukraine makes no sense outside the European context, Snyder explains in his “Ukraine: The End of Europe?” lecture, presented at the Chautauqua Institute in 2016. In...
The Kyiv city council’s new decision claims to “guarantee the preservation of the artifacts, which were found during the archaeological excavations on the construction site of the future shopping mall on Poshtova Ploshcha in...
In a triumph of history over commerce, on 19 April 2018, the Kyiv City Council greenlighted a decision to stop the construction of a shopping mall in central Kyiv. Archeological excavations conducted at the construction site uncovered a...
In the French village of Oradour (June 1944), Nazis murdered 642 inhabitants; in the Czech village of Lidice (June, 1943) – 320, in the Belarusian village of Khatyn (March 1943) – 149 (according to contemporary German data...
On 24 March 2018, 134 bodies of victims of Soviet terror in the west-Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk were given a proper burial, Ukrinform reported. The victims were killed during the Communist terror of 1939-1941. They were discovered...
On January 10 this year it was announced by The State Committee for State TV and Radio Broadcasting in Ukraine that a Russian translation of Anthony Beevor’s work “Stalingrad” had been subject to a ban on the basis of what it...
As the Putin regime takes more steps to hide the crimes of Stalin – it has gotten Interpol to go after the editor of the Russia as the Prison House of Nations portal, it is ever more important to call attention to those crimes. One of...
This note is a response to a pervasive myth held by those who want to demonise Jews as a whole by pointing to the apparent role Jews played in the Communist movement. But what they point to is complete nonsense. It might be good to look at...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
