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2017/06/19 - 23:52 •
Op-ed
On June 20, an expert conference concerning Germany’s historical responsibility before Ukraine will be held inside the German Parliament. In the first half of July, a similar conference was held in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada. A...
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2017/06/11 - 11:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, News, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/06/04 - 11:45 •
Archive
Some years ago, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who later became president of Estonia, suggested that “if the Russians were to come back to Estonia again, they would not be constrained by communism.” That is, they would pursue an even more...
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2017/05/31 - 08:50 •
Analysis & Opinion, Culture, History, Russia
In Paris, Vladimir Putin said that “the enlightened French public knows about the Russian Anna, queen of France, the younger daughter of our Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise who was the wife of Henry I and who made a significant...
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2017/05/30 - 21:56 •
News
The Russian Empire’s Revolution of 1917 is largely remembered through its influence on Russia, although it was consequential to the establishment of a number of independent states, among them Ukraine. The Ukrainian Institute in London is...
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2017/05/30 - 17:19 •
History, Op-ed
On May 29th, in Versailles, during a joint press conference with French president Emmanuel Macron, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that relations between France and Russia have deep historical roots, referring to Anna of Kyiv, a French...
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2017/05/20 - 04:53 •
News
On 19 May 2017, Germany’s Green party initiated debates on the topic of Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine. The party prepared a draft resolution in support of Ukraine which was submitted to the foreign...
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2017/05/04 - 20:39 •
Russia
Regional Ministries of Education and City Administrations across Russia have contacted school headmasters, to insist they ban students and teachers from taking part in a history competition because it turns children into...
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2017/04/22 - 23:03 •
Analysis & Opinion, War in the Donbas
Since 2014, propaganda in the Russian-occupied territories of East Ukraine has been trying to ensure the obedience of the local population as hard as it can. Children and the young people are particularly targeted, not least as the...
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2017/04/13 - 21:06 •
Featured, History
Professor Andrey Zubov was one of the two speakers from Russia at the 10th Kyiv Security Forum which took place on 6-7 April in the Ukrainian capital. He started his talk in the panel discussion on “Russia’s everlasting...
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