Putin’s young “Janissaries”
Close to a thousand years ago, when sultans of the Ottoman Empire were looking for obedient soldiers to…
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History of Ukraine
Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII. Part 1
On April 11 1935, a document titled "Valuable Declarations" was published in translated form for the eyes of…
A photo from the occupied Sevastopol: The Bell of Chersonesos
You might say this picture is out of focus, colors are washed out, and its overall photographic value…
The dissemination of misinformation. A review of a Guardian Newspaper review of a bad book
One of the recurring themes of Soviet apologetics vis-à-vis contemporary Russian apologetics is the way the early part…
In opening access to Communist totalitarian archives, Ukraine draws on European experience
In the European Union the first intergovernmental standard governing archival policies and practices was passed fifteen years ago. Ukraine…
Occupation of Crimea repeats Latvia’s occupation by USSR
Latvia’s Second World War history has always been in conflict with the discourse of the Great Patriotic War…
Memory of the Great Patriotic war in Russia’s expansionist policy
My subject today is “memory of the Great Patriotic war in Russia’s expansionist policy.” I will talk in…
The “Great Patriotic War” as a weapon in the war against Ukraine
Walter Benjamin begins his "Theses on the Philosophy of History” with the description of a mechanical device. It…
Crimea and the Crimean Tatars: Centuries of competing claims and forgotten history
On August 23, 1932, a secret circular for the economic division of the secret police (OGPU) of the…
Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 15th, 2015 is known in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) or a “Holocaust and…
Russian historian: New laws on archives and names show Ukraine ‘increasingly diverging’ from Russia
“The mental gap between Ukraine and Russia is growing, and the trajectories of the two country are ever…
Moscow wants Crimean Tatars to forget their history; Kyiv wants all Ukrainians to remember it
There are many significant differences between Moscow and Kyiv but perhaps none is more indicative of the kind…
Russia and Russian nation owe their existence to the Mongols, Kalmyk émigré Eurasianist argued
Eurasianism by definition is diverse because it argues that Russia to one degree or another has roots in…
Is Ukraine 2015 going to be a repetition of Hungary 1956?
Moscow’s actions in Ukraine now “strikingly recall the behavior of the Soviet Union” during the Cold War which…
Why did Stalin save the life of Hitler’s gauleiter in Ukraine who sent to graves 4 million people?
That the Soviets and the Nazis cooperated even before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and that Stalin and Hitler were…
Timothy Snyder: Ukraine is but one aspect of a much larger strategy that threatens European order
In the year since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Russia has done much to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. It annexed Crimea…
Fascism exploited and distorted in Putin’s Russia for propaganda’s sake
For most of the 20th century, the Russians lived under the iron grip of an authoritarian Marxist-Leninist form…
Heroic women run in Ukraine’s blood: Olha Basarab and the 1920’s
Nadiya Savchenko's heroic struggle against illegal imprisonment by a hunger strike in Russia's Butyrka prison is a story…
Six post-Soviet countries now say they were occupied by the USSR
Yesterday, Georgians marked the 94th anniversary of what Tbilisi calls “the battle of the Soviet Occupation” of that…
Stalin’s Caucasus crimes Putin wants you to forget
Exploring the Caucasus is akin to exploring a mini-continent with its many diverse ethnic groups and cultures all…