Kvitka Cisyk: The American Singing Sensation Who Never Forgot Her Ukrainian Roots
Jazz, rock, blues, country, and opera music. It seemed like there was nothing she couldn’t sing with her…
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Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so…
Ukrainian mosaic: five unique ethnic groups
LEMKOS According to one version, Lemko ancestors were the ancient tribes of White Croats who lived on…
Ukrainian 18th century Independence leader Ivan Mazepa to get his own museum
Centuries later, the famous Ukrainian Hetman - Ivan Mazepa is returning to Kyiv. A museum in memory of…
Ukraine remembers 100 years of revolution
1917 was the year when the Russian Tsar was deposed and his empire began dissolving. It was then,…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 1: The interwar prelude
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This…
The Ukrainian “logical thinking machine” which became a prototype for modern display devices
In April 1914, during his “Cognition and Thinking” lecture, Oleksandr Shchukarev, the Professor of Chemistry at the Kharkiv…
New Reichstag for Moscow children to storm – ‘a universal meme’ for Putin’s Russia, Movchan says
Last week the Russian defense ministry said that it was building “a mini-Reichstag” at a Moscow amusement park…
Georgia a victim not just of communism but also of Soviet occupation, memorialization reaffirms
Since 1989 and 1991, it has become a commonplace in the analysis of formerly communist countries that those…
The Bolbochan raid: How Ukrainian troops captured Crimea 100 years ago
- Salaam Aleikum! Don’t shoot! Glory to Ukraine! They moved forward and stood under the only lamp…
On 73rd anniversary of deportation, Chechnya and Ingushetia divide on Stalin and his crimes
Seventy-three years ago today, Stalin the two Vaynakh nations, the Chechens and the Ingush, thousands of whom lost…
Russia’s war against the Ukrainian language
The books confiscated from the Ukrainian Library will probably be taken to another location, which won’t be called…
The Unsung Lament: Russian Atrocities in Caucasus
“Russian Tsars attack a small people with millions of soldiers and they consider themselves noble.” Kube Şaban, Circassian…
From CIA archives: Stepan Bandera’s 1954 interview to German radio
On 17 January 2017, the CIA declassified more than 930,000 documents from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) system…
The first museum of war in Donbas opens in Dnipro [PHOTOS]
About 2000 artifacts in 3 halls will tell the history of the Donbas war in the first Ukrainian…
Ukrainians worldwide to mark Act of Unity on January 22 with flashmob
Anyone who supports Ukraine and desire its unity and cessation of the Russian aggression can participate in this action being…
The West didn’t ‘betray’ Russia: Russia betrayed its best self
For the past several weeks, many in Russia and the West have been having fun with a Facebook…
Disentangling the ‘fraternal’ Russian and Ukrainian peoples in 1991 and now
Two new commentaries, one about Russia’s refusal to enter into any larger political structure in 1991 if Ukraine…
Russian occupier of Crimea threatens to repeat one of Stalin’s most barbaric acts in 1944
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea…
Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimean natives in the ranks of the UPA
Yaroslav Koretchuk: This book is a martyrology and biography of soldiers that were born in Nadnipryanshchyna. Our museum…