Stolen ancient viking’s sword from the dawn of Kyivan Rus comes back home to Ukraine
No one knows for sure who was the owner of this deadly sword made in the Viking style…
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The Ukrainian who saved Krakow from destruction and other little-known WWII heroes
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs gathered five remarkable stories of Ukrainians helping citizens of other countries during World…
Top-6 Soviet World War II myths used by Russia today
A new book published by the Institute of National Memory aims to bust Soviet-era myths about World War…
Heroes past and present: Remembering Bolotnaya and Russia’s Victory Day
Moscow has been abuzz in "Victory Day" fever for weeks. Toddlers, puppies and tanks are draped in the…
Are scholars from the Institute of National Memory “whitewashing” the history of Ukraine? Volodymyr Vyatrovych responds to Josh Cohen’s article in Foreign Policy
“Instead of problemitizing/demythicizing Ukrainian history, Mr. Cohen and a number of prominent Western historians are engaged in demonizing…
Activists in Kyiv trying to demolish monument to Cheka secret police
Activists have started demolishing the monument to the Cheka – the infamous Soviet secret police created by Lenin…
Chornobyl destroyed the Soviet Union
Thirty years ago this week, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident set in train the forces that destroyed…
Chornobyl: the secret tragedy which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union
Kyiv, a 10-y.o. old boy comes from school and says: - Mom, a girl in my school told…
Ukraine’s Chornobyl, like Russia’s Chelyabinsk before it: Symbols of untenable Soviet moral decay
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) Nuclear Power Plant disaster. On April 25, 1986, workers…
Ukrainian women’s neck ornaments: history and symbols
Beaded necklaces (namysto) are one of the oldest forms of women's ornaments in Ukraine. They have many names…
What Moscow did to Koenigsberg, it will do to Crimea
Moscow’s destructive approach to its exclave of Kaliningrad [former East Prussian city of Koenigsberg - Ed.] over the last 70 years suggests…
Seven reasons why Putin’s war in Ukraine is a turning point in Russian and world history
As the world’s attention shifts, many Russians and many in the West are telling themselves that Vladimir Putin’s…
Church of Saints Olha and Yelyzaveta in Lviv : a royal tribute to love…and more
The Church of Saints Olha and Yelyzaveta has long been one of the most beautiful and elegant symbols…
By taking over state archives, Putin makes a serious error
Vladimir Putin has committed many crimes, but his political tactics at least from his own point of view…
Timothy Snyder: Yes to security in Europe
The choice that Dutch citizens will make on 6 April is not only about a trade agreement between the…
Russia attempts to stir up anti-Muslim, anti-Tatar sentiments in Kherson
A week ago the SBU announced the capture of a terrorist cell that was based in Odesa and targeting the…
Lenincrash – Ukrainian performance art
In Ukraine, toppling Lenin statues fulfills a number of objectives: it’s a popular spectacle, desacrilization of old myths,…
Building a new Russia means rooting out Stalin’s destructive Soviet legacy
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union], Nikita Khrushchev…
As Crimea was occupied, Western countries cautioned Ukraine against “drastic steps”
Today, the National Security and Defence Committee has declassified and published the minutes of the most important high-level meeting…
Ukrainian parliament mulls requiring officials to call the Russian state ‘Muscovy’
Two deputies from the Radical Party, Andrey Lozovoy and Oksana Korchinskaya, introduced a bill in the Ukrainian parliament…