Holodomor survivor stories come to life in mobile app for tourists
Buildings such as the student canteen, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or the apartment block on vulytsia Pushkinska remember the…
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World-famous exhibition about Holodomor-33 opens in Kyiv
“Maria” is a mobile memorial space that sustains the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933…
Sensational find on Khortytsia reveals the remains of an 18th century Cossack encampment
“Here we can see the upper layers covered with soot, which indicates a fire was lit in the…
Soviet special services regularly reinforced Politburo’s view of the world, archives in Ukraine show
The archive contains some 1300 folders with the first reports being from the 1920s and the last from…
The brutal Russification of Ukrainian Kuban: from Zaporizhian Sich to the Kuban Cossack Host
Contents The new land of the Ukrainian Cossacks Rebellion in the Kuban Ukrainization in Kuban (1923-1933) World War…
Sensational find in Khortytsia as archeological team uncovers deep grave of Scythian warrior
The entrance to the three-meter-deep catacomb was buried under a large number of heavy granite boulders. The archeologists…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 44
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Memory wars and other battles
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried…
UPA documents found in Italian shell casing in Zhytomyr Oblast
According to Serhiy Halytsky, acting director of the Radomyshl National Museum of Local History, and director of Povstansky…
Why Ukraine has the world’s cheapest broadband and why the USSR had no proto-Internet
Contents 1. Ukraine’s internet user zero: how the Internet came to Ukraine 2. The Kyiv-based Institute wanted to…
How Communist propaganda made eastern Ukraine hate the national liberation movement
There are historical reasons that explain the non-recognition of the Ukrainian liberation movement by some regions of Ukraine.…
Intellectual group warns against Russian annexation of Ukrainian historical memory in “Holocaust Disneyland”
On October 13, 2020, the members of the First of December Group – founded on the 20th anniversary…
The Guardian censors article on Ukrainian historical stamps. Read it here
The tumultuous XX century saw modern-day Ukraine: engulfed in World War I; emerge from the ruins of the…
Historical reconstruction breathes new life into Ukraine’s iconic Kamianets-Podilskyi fortress
Read also: Five historic сastles to visit in Ukraine Historical reconstruction is the process of recreation of a…
New version of Hunger for Truth, film about Holodomor & Ukrainian struggle for independence, now online
The Canadian journalist who was the first to write about the 1932 genocidal famine in Ukraine — Rhea…
Hoard of 1000-year-old silver coins with Ukrainian trident found in north Ukraine
The older coins of the hoard feature the engraved portrait of Volodymyr the Great (c. 958–1015) - the…
An introduction to the White-Red-White flag of Belarus, and the Belarusian politics of memory
This was the adopted flag of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (BNR) which declared its independence on March 25,…
Why are protesters in Belarus using the white-red-white flag?
Across Minsk and Belarus supporters of the opposition are hanging up and waving white-red-white flags – very different…
Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population
Read also: Austrian engineer captures the horror of the Holodomor in 1932-33 …
One century ago, rebellious Khabarovsk dreamt of becoming a Ukrainian colony
“Ukrainian activists started the protests in Khabarovsk, calling for the disintegration of the federal land,” said Russian propagandist…