Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
Browsing Tag
History
459 posts
How UPA veteran Anna survived the “Russian world”
After WW2, Anna Kushyk moved to the Donbas to escape the vigilant eye of the Soviet secret police.…
Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh
Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…
Huntington profoundly wrong about Ukraine, Kyiv historian says
Samuel Huntington thought that Ukraine was a country divided by “the clash of civilizations,” and this notion lies…
77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland
Many people forget that Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…
Wagging the finger: where the West fails to understand Ukraine
I grew up in the West, where few people know much about Ukraine. In the USA—my home country—most…
History in a bottle: unique documents belonging to UPA family found in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
A piece of family history was discovered recently in the village of Cherniyiv near Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine). A…
‘The Chechen War isn’t over’
Moscow, Grozny and many in the West like to say that the Chechen war is a matter of…
Ukraine today a continuation of Ukrainian Republic of 1918-1920, Verkhovna Rada speaker says
Andrey Parubiy, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, is among those who say that Ukraine today should be…
Ukrainian independence exposed bankruptcy of all three Russian imperial projects, Ikhlov says
There “cannot be a more bitter date for contemporary Russia than August 24, 1991,” Yevgeny Ikhlov says, when…
The History of the Ukrainian National Flag (Infographics)
The evolution of the flags of the Ukrainian nation: 1410 — Flag of Lviv land in the Battle…
How Russians see Ukraine’s Independence
Although the Soviet Union collapsed more than 25 years ago, Russians are still not ready to accept some…
Hitler-Stalin pact still casts a shadow over Europe 77 years on
Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of…
Remains of executed victims found in Lviv’s Prison on Lontskoho Museum
For more than three weeks Ukrainian archaeologists have been excavating the courtyard of the National Memorial Museum “Tyurma…
Ternopil Council looks into Yanukovych’s transfer of Pochayiv Lavra to UOC-MP
The Ternopil Regional Council has created a commission to verify the legality of the transfer of Pochayiv Lavra…
UPA documents discovered in buried milk canister
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Chernivtsi Oblast (Western Ukraine) recently seized about 4,000 UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent…
Archaeologists discover Scythian treasure in Poltava Oblast
About 30 pieces of Scythian gold have been found in a kurhan (burial mound) in Bilsk, Kotelevsky District,…
Poland starts honoring war criminals of 1940s
Members of Polish Sejm are outraged: unlike Ukraine, rebels with blood of civilians on their hands aren’t glorified…
Moscow’s propaganda about Ukrainian anti-Semitism — response to Ukrainian resistance, Ackerman says
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of…
Polish-Ukrainian confrontation over historical past gains momentum
On 7 July Kyiv City Council renamed five streets, a lane and an avenue. The last one, in…