Russia intentionally ignores the fact that Ukrainians, Belarusians, Balts populated the Russian Far East, not Russians
But from that time forward, Soviet and then Russian institutions have sought to Russify these groups and their…
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As long as Russia remains an empire, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive abroad, Eidman says
As long as Russia remains an empire, Igor Eidman says, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive…
Kremlin planned to destabilize Ukraine in the early 1990s by smearing “all forms of nationalism,” KGB file reveals
This declaration did not please the Kremlin and caused quite a stir in Moscow and in the ranks…
The Man and the Nation nobody expected: Andrei Sheptytskyi and Ukraine
History knows providential people. History remembers people, who correspond with their very nature to what a nation and…
‘Crimean Tatar tragedy of 1944 being repeated’ and with more damaging effect, Dzhemilev says
Seventy-six years ago on May 18, Stalin ordered the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homelands to…
“Holocaust Disneyland” on mass graves in Kyiv – result of weak national memory policy
The museum is planned to be built in Babyn Yar, where the largest executions were committed by Nazi…
In the shadow of revised history: Kremlin’s war on remembrance continues
Attacking the local authorities in Prague, the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets chose to ignore the historical facts, as they…
Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says
Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…
Marking Day of the Circassian Flag online – a national action the pandemic couldn’t stop
For Circassians, who have been deprived of a common territory and even a common ethnic name by Russian…
Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says
Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by…
Putin unintentionally highlights that Russia’s war on Ukraine is both ancient and fateful, Inozemtsev says
In this latest remarks on Ukraine, Putin alludes to but distorts this reality when he says that those…
Portnikov: Crimea’s past and Kremlin’s falsifications
The parliaments of Central European and Baltic countries, one by one, have been passing resolutions condemning the Kremlin’s…
Stalin’s anti-Ukrainian policies in RSFSR prove Holodomor was a genocide
Apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system to this day insist that the Holodomor cannot be called a…
Stalin’s management of Red Army proves Holodomor a Soviet genocide against Ukrainians
On November 23, Ukrainians and their supporters across the world mark a day in memory of the Holodomor,…
Holodomor: Stalin’s punishment for 5,000 peasant revolts
Why revolts took place in Ukraine but much less frequently in other parts of the Soviet Union In…
Holodomor, Genocide & Russia: the great Ukrainian challenge
November is the month of remembrance, and this year marks the 86th commemoration of the 1932-33 Holodomor, one…
Meet Ukraїner, “project that tells the world about the least discovered country in Europe”
Watch the trailer of the documentary: Ukraїner is a media initiative launched in 2016. Without any financial support,…
A century of Georgia’s struggle against pro-Kremlin disinformation
Almost 100 years ago, in his speech in Tbilisi 16 January 1920, Noe Zhordania, the first leader of Democratic…
New book tells of sacred relics of Kyivan Rus appropriated by Russia
The icon of the Annunciation of Korsun, which was re-named the Annunciation of Ustyug in Russia, is an…
Jewish survivors of Babi Yar Holocaust massacre recall events, reconstruct exact shooting location
The massacre committed by the Nazis and local collaborators in the Babi Yar ravine on 29-30 September 1941,…