Remains of executed victims found in Lviv’s Prison on Lontskoho Museum
For more than three weeks Ukrainian archaeologists have been excavating the courtyard of the National Memorial Museum “Tyurma…
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Ternopil Council looks into Yanukovych’s transfer of Pochayiv Lavra to UOC-MP
The Ternopil Regional Council has created a commission to verify the legality of the transfer of Pochayiv Lavra…
UPA documents discovered in buried milk canister
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Chernivtsi Oblast (Western Ukraine) recently seized about 4,000 UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent…
Archaeologists discover Scythian treasure in Poltava Oblast
About 30 pieces of Scythian gold have been found in a kurhan (burial mound) in Bilsk, Kotelevsky District,…
Poland starts honoring war criminals of 1940s
Members of Polish Sejm are outraged: unlike Ukraine, rebels with blood of civilians on their hands aren’t glorified…
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…
Polish-Ukrainian confrontation over historical past gains momentum
On 7 July Kyiv City Council renamed five streets, a lane and an avenue. The last one, in…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
Lists of NKVD victims killed in mass executions in 1941 published online
75 years ago, during June - July 1941, the Soviet NKVD shot around 24 thousand prisoners in western…
Ihor’s life story: a mirror image of Ukraine’s history in the 20th century
Ihor Popovych is a 83-year-old resident of Lviv who lived through the horrors of the Soviet totalitarian system…
June 22, 1941 – the day Hitler and Stalin ceased to be allies
Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he…
Polish ruling party: Ukraine’s version of historical memory of Volyn is “a problem”
In the early June Ukraine’s political and religious leaders addressed the Polish society in an open letter of…
The Volyn Tragedy: Reconciliation or Confrontation?
The Polish Peasant Party is proposing to commemorate July 11 as the Day of Remembrance of the victims…
Lenin statues to stand in Russia, but to fall in its successor states, Shtepa says
Sometimes a brief Facebook post can say in brief compass more than an extended discourse of article or…
Inside Ukraine’s appeal for Church autocephaly
On the eve of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Churches, Ukraine’s Parliament approved and issued…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
Historical and Spiritual Univ Monastery
Univ Monastery is located near the village of Univ, about 50 kilometres from Lviv (western Ukraine). There are…
Will history repeat itself? Crimea: a national and cultural ghetto for the Crimean Tatars
For two years, Moscow and Crimean Tatar collaborators have been vainly trying to gain favour with the Crimean…
A short history of the Ukrainian greeting “Slava Ukrayini!”
Historians claim that the phrase “Slava Ukrayini!” (Glory to Ukraine!) first appeared in the Black Zaporozhtsi Cavalry Regiment,…
Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…