West backed Forest Brothers in Baltic countries, newly declassified CIA documents show
Many in the Baltic countries and elsewhere still celebrate the US non-recognition policy which specified that Washington would…
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Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today
Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…
War through a child’s eyes: 9-year-old’s diary about Kosovo war now in English
The first serious clashes between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Yugoslav authorities began back in January…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
“Malorossiya”: yet another Russian imperial myth salvaged from the garbage dump of history
Where did Zakharchenko’s aides pick up the name for their new utopia, the “state of Malorossiya” as a…
Disinformation across ages: Russia’s old but effective weapon of influence
I. The Metropol gala It was 10 December 2015. Russia’s global propaganda television channel RT (formerly Russia Today)…
Huge genealogical database of Ukrainians born in 1650–1920 opens online
The database includes 2.56 mn people and is expected to reach 4 to 5 mn in 2019. The…
Nazi dreams of an enslaved Ukraine: the blind spot of Germany’s historical memory – Timothy Snyder
When we ask why historical responsibility, why German historical responsibility, I want to begin from the universal point…
107 remains of political prisoners executed by NKVD found in old Lutsk prison (photos)
NKVD - the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading Soviet secret police organization from 1934 to…
Why we need a discussion about Germany’s historical responsibility toward Ukraine
On June 20, an expert conference concerning Germany's historical responsibility before Ukraine will be held inside the German…
“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Not ‘constrained by communism’ – Why Putin is a greater threat than Brezhnev ever was
Some years ago, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who later became president of Estonia, suggested that “if the Russians were…
1962 Novocherkassk shootings led rise of dissident movement and end of Soviet system, historians say
The massacre of striking Novocherkassk workers by Soviet military units 55 years ago this week initially spread fear…
Documentary Genocide Revealed launches new web site
A new website has been launched highlighting the availability of the English, Ukrainian, French versions of the multi-award winning…
Putin’s ‘appropriation’ of medieval Ukrainian princess reflects more than historical arrogance
In Paris, Vladimir Putin said that “the enlightened French public knows about the Russian Anna, queen of France,…
Difficult choice for Ukraine as identities of KGB agents finally come to light
Ukraine’s resolve to open the archives of the communist special services makes publicly available not only the files…
Series of events in London will mark centenary of Ukrainian Revolution of 1917
The Russian Empire’s Revolution of 1917 is largely remembered through its influence on Russia, although it was consequential…
Slovyansk and Kharkiv key to understanding war in Ukraine
Hello and welcome to Head-to-Head. It’s Vivica Williams and today we're talking with Paul Niland, a political commentator…
Symbolic expansion: how Putin annexes history, not only territories
On May 29th, in Versailles, during a joint press conference with French president Emmanuel Macron, Russian leader Vladimir…
80 years ago, Stalin’s NKVD began to arrest and shoot the deaf and dumb
One of Hitler’s most heinous crimes was his execution of Germans with physical and mental handicaps, an action…