We should be asking what feature of Russian politics is not fascist – Timothy Snyder
Pundits who haven't visited Ukraine can't understand it, Timothy Snyder in a conversation with Ivan Gomza Timothy Snyder,…
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Ukrainian identity: away from Moscow
Ukraine identifies itself as part of Europe - The East Slavic people—Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians—once shared Kyivan Rus,…
“Finlandization” was malignant for Finland and might be even worse for Ukraine
Finnish era of "Finlandization" After the Second World War, Finland remained an "odd man out" on the European…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
Kremlin refuses to see ‘Russians are tired of empire’ and so is on a suicidal path, Tsipko says
Vladimir Putin and his regime continue to try to blame Gorbachev or the West for the demise of…
It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin
Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…
Russian troop strength in North Caucasus same as at peak of Russo-Circassian War, Beshto says
Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Russo-Circassian War (1763-1864) ended, and despite all the…
The 100 days when Odesa was a French province: historic photos
On 18 December 1918, French troops occupied Odesa and announced that they were taking the city under their…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Timothy Snyder: Putin’s essay on Ukraine creates mythical history to cover foreign policy failures
Address by Timothy Snyder, Historian, Richard C. Levin Professor at Yale University, at the Kyiv Security Forum Good…
Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial to the victims
There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar [also known as Babi Yar], the site…
Crimea was always a multicultural hodgepodge
Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has tried to obliterate Crimea’s diverse cultural heritage. But Crimean history…
Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples
“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the…
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is demagogic, delusional and dangerous
One impression from the lengthy and stylistically incoherent text is that the author is deeply involved with the…
The Arctic Ocean was once the Tatar Sea, Khakimov says
They have managed to convince many that the Volga is a Russian rather than a Tatar river and…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Alternative history: how Russia seeks to annex Kyivan Rus
"For the Kremlin, history is not something to be studied and remembered. It is something that must be…
Vitaly Portnikov: For Putin, Ukraine does not and will never exist
One of Vladimir Putin’s final statements in his long article is that the “true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible…