Ukrainian identity: away from Moscow
Ukraine identifies itself as part of Europe - The East Slavic people—Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians—once shared Kyivan Rus,…
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History of Ukraine
Russian occupiers launch war on Ukrainian history, burning books and destroying archives
Seizure and destruction of Ukrainian historical and fiction literature that does not adhere to the requirements of Kremlin…
The defeat that won’t repeat: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a century ago & now
The situation in and around Ukraine is increasingly reminiscent of the Sudetenland Crisis in 1938 and the Cuban…
Ancient Ukrainian church brotherhoods as forerunner of nation’s civil society today, Horyevoy says
Many are investigating why civil societies have emerged in some countries but not in others; but their research,…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada rescues videos, testimonies of Ukrainian dissidents
Director Yuriy Luhovy and producer Zoryana Hrytsenko from Canada have rescued 26 video recordings of Ukrainian dissidents. These…
New dig in Lviv Oblast reveals unique artefacts from the Roman period
A team of scientists and scholars from the joint archeological expedition of the Historical and Local Lore Museum…
The 100 days when Odesa was a French province: historic photos
On 18 December 1918, French troops occupied Odesa and announced that they were taking the city under their…
Record find of OUN documents in Ternopil Oblast includes novel album of UPA “image-maker” Nil Khasevych
History in milk cans Civilian diggers Andriy Khrunyk and Andriy Ostap found the milk cans in Berezhany…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Which western bands were banned in the USSR?
KISS - neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin - punk, violence Madonna - sex What the hell is this?…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
Hundreds of thousands of families lost their means of subsistence. They were scattered across the Soviet country: some…
On the streets with big plans. How Kyiv’s Euromaidan museum wants to promote democracy for the whole of Europe
After the first 5 years of work, the newly created Ukrainian National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity…
Is Zelenskyy’s presidency a rollback of Euromaidan values or their continuation?
On November 21, Ukraine celebrated the Day of Dignity and Freedom, created by presidential decree on November 13,…
Baturyn massacre which brought Russian Empire to rank of global powers and destroyed Ukrainian Cossack state recalled
The Baturyn massacre was never properly researched prior to Ukraine regaining independence in 1991. Since 1995, archaeologists have…
International project renovates priceless frescoes in historic Garrison Church in Lviv
The project was launched back in July 2015 by Father Stepan Susa, who was then the parish priest…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Starved mother lay dead while her baby sucked on empty breast | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared…
“Black diggers” unearth 2 metal drums filled with grain dating from 1946-47
The news was subsequently announced on FB by Mykola Bandrivsky, chairman of the archeological commission at the Shevchenko…
My granny stole pig food for us grandchildren but died of starvation herself | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Contents The Syvak family “And they took everything away from everyone” Surrogates “No one cried, no one was…