Ukrzaliznytsia de-Russifies 82 railway objects in 2023 on language commissioner’s request
Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine's state-owned railway operator, reported that it de-Russified 82 railway infrastructure objects in 2023.
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Why post-Soviet cities look so terrible, and how this can be fixed
Сertain districts in Ukrainian cities are more frequently the subject of local anecdotes than others. Amongst these are…
Six amazing projects bringing life to Soviet ruins in Ukrainian cities
Poor Soviet city planning made Ukrainian cities of the 1990s look gloomy and ruined. Large belts of factories…
Last Lenin statue in Ukraine falls
The last statue of Lenin on public land in those portions of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv was demolished…
Three telling poll results from Belarus
Polls in authoritarian countries like Belarus are hardly reliable given that many people there doubt that surveys are…
Explaining why those monuments are lying
Across the former Soviet empire, non-Russians have been taking down the Soviet-era statues that Moscow had imposed on…
Social care homes: the Ukrainian “Gulag”
Imagine your brother decides to marry and needs more space in the flat your deceased mother left behind,…
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…
Building a new Russia means rooting out Stalin’s destructive Soviet legacy
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union], Nikita Khrushchev…
De-Sovietization in Ukraine: 871 cities, towns and villages freeing their names from the Soviet legacy
Communities of 871 Ukrainian cities, towns and villages will give them new names or return to their historical…
Deutsche Welle and “historical truth”
"The German National Socialists, despite several flaws, enjoyed great popularity and support and were skilled organizers. They pulled…
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…