Dynamo Kyiv is one of Eastern Europe’s oldest clubs and most notably the club that won the most championships (13) in the Soviet Top League. The Dynamo of the 1990s regularly struck fear into their opponent. Among their past...
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s newly released football kit sparked outrage in Russia. In response to Ukraine’s new shirt, the Russian Federation lodged an official complaint to the Union of European Football Associations...
cFollowing complaints by the Russian Football Union, UEFA has required Ukraine to remove part of a national slogan depicted on the inside of the collar of the uniform in the run-up to the UEFA European Football Championship Euro-2020 which...
The current state of football in Ukraine After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was not able to build off of its impressive football heritage, and many top Ukrainian players were persuaded to play for the Russian national team....
As many domestic football leagues collapse, sports pundits are still in shock at what Ukraine has been able to achieve under its current circumstances — finishing at the top of its group. Nor is that all. The Ukrainian U-20 team (20...
If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to be held in Russia in 16 days, then when will it? Tata Gutmakher asks, adding that unfortunately it appears the West...
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip to Crimea. Unlike real Russian villages, these were clean and bright and designed to give the impression that the people there...
A British newspaper is reporting that FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, is now investigating all the members of the Russian team in the last world cup competition for doping, an investigation that Moscow is dismissing as a witch...
Germany could boycott the 2018 World Cup in Russia. This comes as a response to a Russian police crackdown on mass protests that spread across the host country on Sunday. Read also: All Russia is now one big hot spot, regional affairs...
In particular, El Pais notes that Zozulya has never used Nazi symbols, but on the contrary, has demonstrated patriotic sentiment and is fully committed to the idea that military action is needed to return the Donbas to Ukraine....
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
