Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
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History of Ukraine
20 Prominent Ukrainian Women
Ada Rohovtseva (1937- ) Famous theatre and cinema actress, People’s Artist of Ukraine, professor at the National…
Alexander Nevsky monument-to-be in occupied Luhansk “propaganda,” historian says
Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir never set foot in Luhansk Oblast. However, this “hero” was…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 40
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Ukrainian dissident Krasivsky: Russia is our historical enemy. Only by fighting back can we survive
Friend and dissident Yevhen Sverstyuk called him a “kind-hearted knight in an old suit of armour”. His friends…
Princess Olha of Kyiv: a golden page in Ukrainian history
Princess Olha’s origin and chronology remain a mystery. Historians are only sure of the date of her death,…
The history behind “Bitter Harvest,” dramatic movie about the Holodomor
Over the last year the Holodomor has garnered much needed additional publicity, in part due to the current…
Professor Oleh Panfilov: Every shot fired against the enemy stems the tide of “Russkiy Mir”
- You recently stated that Russians have been writing “antihistory” for more than 16 years. Please explain what…
Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
How UPA veteran Anna survived the “Russian world”
After WW2, Anna Kushyk moved to the Donbas to escape the vigilant eye of the Soviet secret police.…
Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh
Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…
Huntington profoundly wrong about Ukraine, Kyiv historian says
Samuel Huntington thought that Ukraine was a country divided by “the clash of civilizations,” and this notion lies…
77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland
Many people forget that Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…
History in a bottle: unique documents belonging to UPA family found in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
A piece of family history was discovered recently in the village of Cherniyiv near Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine). A…
‘The Chechen War isn’t over’
Moscow, Grozny and many in the West like to say that the Chechen war is a matter of…
Ukraine today a continuation of Ukrainian Republic of 1918-1920, Verkhovna Rada speaker says
Andrey Parubiy, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, is among those who say that Ukraine today should be…
Ukrainian independence exposed bankruptcy of all three Russian imperial projects, Ikhlov says
There “cannot be a more bitter date for contemporary Russia than August 24, 1991,” Yevgeny Ikhlov says, when…
The History of the Ukrainian National Flag (Infographics)
The evolution of the flags of the Ukrainian nation: 1410 — Flag of Lviv land in the Battle…
How Russians see Ukraine’s Independence
Although the Soviet Union collapsed more than 25 years ago, Russians are still not ready to accept some…
Hitler-Stalin pact still casts a shadow over Europe 77 years on
Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of…