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Ukrainian Holodomor Museum launches crowdfunding campaign to create main exhibition
A fundraising campaign has been launched to finish the construction of the Museum of Holodomor-Genocide, located in the…
Holodomor survivor stories come to life in mobile app for tourists
Buildings such as the student canteen, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or the apartment block on vulytsia Pushkinska remember the…
Bread from tree bark and straw: students launch online “restaurant” with Holodomor “recipes”
Students from the Ukrainian Leadership Academy have launched an online “restaurant” featuring “recipes” thanks to which many Ukrainians…
World-famous exhibition about Holodomor-33 opens in Kyiv
“Maria” is a mobile memorial space that sustains the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933…
Soviet special services regularly reinforced Politburo’s view of the world, archives in Ukraine show
The archive contains some 1300 folders with the first reports being from the 1920s and the last from…
The brutal Russification of Ukrainian Kuban: from Zaporizhian Sich to the Kuban Cossack Host
The new land of the Ukrainian Cossacks Thousands of Ukrainian Cossacks and their families moved to the Kuban…
Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process
[editorial]This year’s Lviv Security Forum brought together security experts from different countries in order to model the resolution…
Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population
[editorial]It is literally impossible to count the exact number of victims of political repression in Ukraine. According to…
Constitutions didn’t save USSR and won’t by themselves save Russia, Vanin says
Facing a situation in which there is growing popular discontent and increasing dysfunction in institutions, Vladimir Putin has…
As long as Russia remains an empire, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive abroad, Eidman says
As long as Russia remains an empire, Igor Eidman says, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive…
Kremlin planned to destabilize Ukraine in the early 1990s by smearing “all forms of nationalism,” KGB file reveals
This declaration did not please the Kremlin and caused quite a stir in Moscow and in the ranks…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…
In the shadow of revised history: Kremlin’s war on remembrance continues
Attacking the local authorities in Prague, the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets chose to ignore the historical facts, as they…
Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says
Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by…
Stalin’s anti-Ukrainian policies in RSFSR prove Holodomor was a genocide
Apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system to this day insist that the Holodomor cannot be called a…
Hunger for Truth: Documentary about Canadian journalist who was first to report about Holodomor
Her 1932 articles were published in the Toronto newspaper The Evening Telegram and were found only a few…
Stalin’s management of Red Army proves Holodomor a Soviet genocide against Ukrainians
On November 23, Ukrainians and their supporters across the world mark a day in memory of the Holodomor,…
Austrian engineer captures the horror of the Holodomor in 1932-33
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that…
Holodomor: Stalin’s punishment for 5,000 peasant revolts
[editorial]On 28 November 2020, Ukraine and the world commemorate the 86th anniversary of the Holodomor, the man-made famine…
Holodomor, Genocide & Russia: the great Ukrainian challenge
November is the month of remembrance, and this year marks the 86th commemoration of the 1932-33 Holodomor, one…