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Russia’s child brainwashing handbook: victim from 78 years ago speaks out
Echoing crimes of today, in 1945, daughter of Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader was forcibly sent away, given fabricated Russian identity, and raised to hail the Communists
The rise and decline of Donbas: how the region became “the heart of Soviet Union” and why it fell to Russian hybrid war
The demographic portrait of the region: how Russian propaganda used it The ethnicity map of Ukraine suggests that…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 3: The way to European catastrophe
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler…
Post-truth world is not something new but a return to the past, Portnikov says
Many people believe that the “post-truth” period the world is entering now is something new, but in fact,…
Moscow’s propaganda about Ukrainian anti-Semitism — response to Ukrainian resistance, Ackerman says
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of…
Former Ukrainian dissident Yevhen Sverstiuk dies at 86
Famous Ukrainian political prisoner Yevhen Sverstiuk died at the age of 86 after a long illness. This was…
No Russian Fairytale: Ending the Soviet historical mindset in Ukraine
Until recently, 28 October was celebrated in Ukraine as the “Day of liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders.”…