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How the USSR interfered in the 1964 US presidential election: KGB memo
Potential Russian interference in the US presidential election has been a top media topic several times in recent…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…
Alternative history: how Russia seeks to annex Kyivan Rus
"For the Kremlin, history is not something to be studied and remembered. It is something that must be…
How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…
Sensational archaeological find uncovers “Ukrainian Stonehenge” in eastern Ukraine
There are numerous kurgans scattered throughout eastern and southern Ukraine and archaeologists and historians are worried that, in…
Ukraine’s New York: child of a tragic love story of European industrialists and Donbas
Contents Wild Field European settlers and industrialists British roots of local capitals More industries Not just capitals, not…
“Here I see God”: Omelian Kovch, the Ukrainian priest who saved hundreds of Jews & died in Majdanek concentration camp
On January 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed Omelian Kovch a “Righteous of Ukraine”. Until his…
Can you stop the fall of the Cossack state? Play this Ukrainian history game and find out
This historical and political game depicts the events that took place in the 17th century in the Zaporozhian…
Yevhen Konovalets, a leader who knew how to unite Ukrainians and was assassinated by NKVD
14 June 2021 marked 130 years since the birth of Ukrainian Colonel Yevhen Konovalets (14 June 1891 - 23 May 1938), who founded the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was among the main Ukrainian political leaders of the 1930s who pursued Ukraine's independence at a time when the nation was split under Soviet and Polish rule.
Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty
Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…
How to be a Finn if you’re a Soviet spy: KGB’s illustrated tips from the 1970s
First, I want to tell you a joke. Many a true word is spoken in jest. A scout…
Exploring the ancient graffiti of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv (photo report)
During the presentation, visitors were allowed to look through the volumes and view the results of 15 years…
How a free-spirited country girl from Ukraine became an intrepid adventuress & 1930s travel blogger
If Instagram, YouTube, and other social media had existed in the 1930s, Sofiya Yablonska would have gathered the…
Russia’s Tatarstan to have a Muslim holiday in memory of those who fell fighting Ivan the Terrible in 1552
With the weakening and then collapse of the Soviet empire, Tatar activists began to mark the event with…
Ukraine’s European heritage is in its language’s DNA
Throughout centuries, the history of the Ukrainian language was as turbulent as the history of Ukraine itself. Captured…
Memorial to Austrian Prince Vasyl Vyshyvany inaugurated in Kyiv
A bust of Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg-Lothringen (Vasyl Vyshyvany), colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Sichovi Striltsi) and…
Crimean Tatars’ return from deportation documented by project on Ukraine’s wild 90’s | WATCH ONLINE
The long way home: deportation and return of Crimean Tatars to their Homeland The documentary, aired by Ukraine's…
Liberal nationalism is the cure Ukraine needs to treat its post-colonial scars – Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk is one of Ukraine’s most published essayists. He is the president of the Ukrainian PEN-center and…
10 things everyone should know about Ukraine
The project tells stories of prominent Ukrainians, historical and cultural events that reshaped Ukraine's history of the 19th-21th…