Russia’s act of genocide against Circassians lasted more than 150 years, Chukhua says
Today, Circassians and their supporters mark the 153rd anniversary of the day Russian forces expelled Circassian nation from…
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History of Ukraine
Historical documents detailing Vistula operation to deport 150,000 Polish Ukrainians now online
Digitized documents published by the Center for Researching Liberation Movements show that the operation was carried out by the…
Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine discussed in Bundestag
On 19 May 2017, Germany's Green party initiated debates on the topic of Germany's historical responsibility towards Ukraine. The…
No one denies Soviet Army defeated Hitler but Russians won’t admit it occupied those it liberated, Tatyana Ross says
For Russians, Victory Day is an ever more important date; but they act as if May 9 was…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
Three years after sham referendums in Donbas, no Russian Spring
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal "referendums" were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk…
Volodymyr Vyatrovych: Hopefully Ukraine will soon commemorate Victory Day on May 8
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
Contents The myth of May 9 The myth of the great victory of the Soviet people Brezhnev, L. The Great…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
Johann Georg Pinsel: the Michelangelo from Lviv
Johann Georg Pinsel was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor of German or Czech origin who lived and worked in Lviv,…
Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution: remembering stories of Heavenly Hundred
Vivica Williams, UATV correspondent: Paul and I met on the pedestrian bridge overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square,…
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…
Andrey Zubov: Russia will one day be a normal country
Professor Andrey Zubov was one of the two speakers from Russia at the 10th Kyiv Security Forum which…
Kvitka Cisyk: The American Singing Sensation Who Never Forgot Her Ukrainian Roots
Jazz, rock, blues, country, and opera music. It seemed like there was nothing she couldn’t sing with her…
That time when the Soviet Union tried to join NATO in 1954
More than a half-century ago, the USSR attempted to apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so…
Ukrainian mosaic: five unique ethnic groups
Contents LEMKOS BOYKOS HUTSULS BUKOVYNIANS PODOLIANS AFTERWORD LEMKOS According to one version, Lemko ancestors were the ancient…
Ukrainian 18th century Independence leader Ivan Mazepa to get his own museum
Centuries later, the famous Ukrainian Hetman - Ivan Mazepa is returning to Kyiv. A museum in memory of…
Ukraine remembers 100 years of revolution
1917 was the year when the Russian Tsar was deposed and his empire began dissolving. It was then,…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 1: The interwar prelude
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This…