Lists of NKVD victims killed in mass executions in 1941 published online
75 years ago, during June - July 1941, the Soviet NKVD shot around 24 thousand prisoners in western…
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Ihor’s life story: a mirror image of Ukraine’s history in the 20th century
Ihor Popovych is a 83-year-old resident of Lviv who lived through the horrors of the Soviet totalitarian system…
June 22, 1941 – the day Hitler and Stalin ceased to be allies
Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he…
Polish ruling party: Ukraine’s version of historical memory of Volyn is “a problem”
In the early June Ukraine’s political and religious leaders addressed the Polish society in an open letter of…
The Volyn Tragedy: Reconciliation or Confrontation?
The Polish Peasant Party is proposing to commemorate July 11 as the Day of Remembrance of the victims…
Lenin statues to stand in Russia, but to fall in its successor states, Shtepa says
Sometimes a brief Facebook post can say in brief compass more than an extended discourse of article or…
Inside Ukraine’s appeal for Church autocephaly
On the eve of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Churches, Ukraine’s Parliament approved and issued…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
Historical and Spiritual Univ Monastery
Univ Monastery is located near the village of Univ, about 50 kilometres from Lviv (western Ukraine). There are…
Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…
Will history repeat itself? Crimea: a national and cultural ghetto for the Crimean Tatars
For two years, Moscow and Crimean Tatar collaborators have been vainly trying to gain favour with the Crimean…
A short history of the Ukrainian greeting “Slava Ukrayini!”
Historians claim that the phrase “Slava Ukrayini!” (Glory to Ukraine!) first appeared in the Black Zaporozhtsi Cavalry Regiment,…
Polish religious leaders support Ukrainian letter of repentance for Volyn
Polish Metropolitan Archbishops called for unity with Ukrainians and holding a dialogue regarding the difficult common past. On…
Ukrainians call upon Poles to establish mutual Day of Remembrance for Volyn tragedy victims
Ukrainian Heads of Churches, former Presidents of Ukraine and well-known state and public figures and intellectuals appealed to…
Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…
Anna of Kyiv, the French Queen from Ukraine-Rus
On 19 May 1051, Anna, the youngest daughter of Kyivan Rus Prince Yaroslav the Wise, ascended to the…
Russians won’t admit expulsion of Circassians was genocide — but Ukrainians should
One hundred sixty-two years ago today, tsarist forces defeated the Circassians in the North Caucasus after the latter…
Crimean Tatars no longer alone in remembering Stalin’s crimes against their nation
Seventy-two years ago, the Soviet state deported the Crimean Tatars from their homeland to Central Asia, a tragedy…
Deportation, genocide, and Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars
On May 18, Ukraine marks the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea that took place…
Why compare the Holodomor and the Holocaust
Professor Philippe de Lara gave a lecture about the unique nature of the two genocides: the Holocaust as…