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…
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Russia’s David and Goliath, II: Nemtsov protégé Yashin writes report on Chechnya’s Kadyrov
Ilya Yashin announced yesterday on Twitter that he was in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia’s restive republic…
Ukraine’s European integration impossible without decommunization
First of all, I would like to highlight the importance and the urgency of the issues that we…
Ukrainians worldwide to commemorate Act of Unity on January 22
Around three million people in Ukraine took each others hands and connected Kyiv and Lviv via a real human chain.…
How I stopped worrying and learned to love Ukraine’s system
People in Ukraine and elsewhere like to decry the ‘system’ that exists in Ukraine, that Maidan apparently stood…
Two anniversaries of Soviet state terrorism must not be forgotten
Twenty-five years ago today, Soviet forces carried out an act of state terrorism in the Latvian capital of…
Dissident artist Alla Horska murdered 45 years ago
Ukrainian artist Alla Horska was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her father-in-law’s apartment in Vasilkiv, Kyiv oblast…
Communist crimes against Ukrainians give them many reasons to ban Communist party
On 16 December 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court banned activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine. This came…
Did Putin occupy Crimea for same reason Stalin deported Crimean Tatars?
Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars and other Turkic peoples from the southern portions of the USSR because he…
The destruction of Ukraine’s folk singers
In early December 1930, a Congress of the Folk Singers of Soviet Ukraine, with 337 delegates from different…
Six challenges Ukraine’s national state faced before Euromaidan
The current crisis in Ukraine has much more to do with long-term problems of state building in Ukraine…
Jewish Quarter in Lviv crumbling before our eyes…
Lviv (western Ukraine) is proceeding to implement the Synagogue Area Project in the old Jewish Quarter where only…
Why there are Muslim crescents on Orthodox crosses in Moscow but not in Kyiv
Orthodox churches in Moscow built before 1700 feature crosses with a Muslim crescent moon on them, a feature…
Why don’t Russians commemorate the Terror Famine?
Today Ukrainians around the world commemorated the Holodomor, the terror famine Stalin directed against the peasantry in the…
Holodomor or death by starvation changes people’s genotype, say psychologists
Fear of dying of starvation has led many Ukrainians to believe that when it comes to choosing between…
Documents show massive export of products from Ukraine during Holodomor
The once-secret documents from the Russian State Archives of Economy have been posted online in the Electronic Archive of the Liberation Movement Research Centre on the eve of the 82nd anniversary of the Holodomor.
Russian court labels Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”, an extremist
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), scholar, lawyer and one of the “people of the truth” who testified about the Holodomor…
Maidan and its significance. A historical retrospective
In the past six months, the world has seen some amazing political activity in Ukraine. We watch and…
SBU Archive director: “Cause of death – Ukrainian” in 1933 registry
A press conference devoted to the 82nd anniversary of the Holodomor was recently held at the National Museum…
Military solution to ISIS exists but not for terrorism more generally, Khramov says
There is a military solution to ISIS and it will undoubtedly be successfully applied in the coming weeks,…