Ukraine supports exhumations for Volyn tragedy victims, says Polish foreign minister
Ukraine and Poland agree to practical mechanisms for exhumation efforts, marking progress in addressing sensitive historical issues.
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Scholars unite to answer humanity’s “hard questions” through a 3-million-word global history of Ukraine
An international team of 90 reserarches seeks to answer when humans first crossed into Europe and what truly causes wars, using Ukraine's rich past as a unique lens.
Kursk Oblast: Where Russia’s “historical lands” argument falls apart
As Ukrainian troops advance into Kursk Oblast, they encounter an unexpected ally: history itself. Ironically, Russia's justification for invading Ukraine crumbles on its own soil.
From Anschluss to Invasion: Putin follows Hitler’s playbook
Despite the lessons of appeasing Hitler before WWII, world leaders have again failed to deter authoritarian aggression from Russia
Ukrainian history goes global: British Museum hosts presentation of new research program
World-class scholars have announced a three-year research project to study and teach the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the present day.
Russia’s child brainwashing handbook: victim from 78 years ago speaks out
Echoing crimes of today, in 1945, daughter of Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader was forcibly sent away, given fabricated Russian identity, and raised to hail the Communists
Ukraine commemorates Sandarmokh’s victims – a thousand intellectuals slain by Soviet authorities
Thousand of Ukrainian writers, artists, and scientists were shot in northern Russia 86 years ago
The real reason Russia calls everyone Nazis
Russia is branding all opponents of its fascism as fascists and Nazis, but why? Look to the Soviet deformation of history, which conjured the "eternal war of the West against Russia"
Essay: Ukraine reclaims its place in Europe in the wake of Russia’s failing invasion
1. History is objective in that it is a series of significant and insignificant events. It is initially…
Russian military burn Ukrainian books in boiler houses on occupied territories
Cases of mass burning of Ukrainian books by the Russian occupiers were recorded in the city of Rovenky,…
Unholy trinity, explained: How Kyiv priests created Russia’s imperial “Triune Rus” ideology
Putin is willing to destroy anything that contradicts his interpretation of history. It includes the denial of Ukraine’s…
Church survived two world wars but Russian shelling destroyed it in 2022
The church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Kiselyvka, Mykolayiv Oblast, survived two world wars…
We should be asking what feature of Russian politics is not fascist – Timothy Snyder
Pundits who haven’t visited Ukraine can’t understand it, Timothy Snyder in a conversation with Ivan Gomza Timothy Snyder,…
Ukrainian identity: away from Moscow
Ukraine identifies itself as part of Europe – The East Slavic people—Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians—once shared Kyivan Rus,…
“Finlandization” was malignant for Finland and might be even worse for Ukraine
Finnish era of “Finlandization” After the Second World War, Finland remained an “odd man out” on the European…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
Kremlin refuses to see ‘Russians are tired of empire’ and so is on a suicidal path, Tsipko says
Vladimir Putin and his regime continue to try to blame Gorbachev or the West for the demise of…
It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin
Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…
Russian troop strength in North Caucasus same as at peak of Russo-Circassian War, Beshto says
Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Russo-Circassian War (1763-1864) ended, and despite all the…
The 100 days when Odesa was a French province: historic photos
On 18 December 1918, French troops occupied Odesa and announced that they were taking the city under their…