The West’s failure in 1991 must not be repeated now
Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of…
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Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
Kyiv circa 1890 in color(ed) photographs
The US Library of Congress hosts a number of unique colorized postcards from modern-day Ukraine made by the…
Russia’s cap of the Monomakh came not from Constantinople but from Khan Uzbek, Tashkent historian says
The cap of the Monomakh, a symbol for many Russians of Muscovy’s links to Constantinople and thus fundamental…
24 years ago, Moscow attacked Chechnya, triggering a war that changed everything
Most people today are focusing on bidding farewell to Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the great human rights activist that Vladimir…
‘Stalin prepared the Holodomor the same way Hitler did the Holocaust,’ Hrynevych says
Ukrainian historian Liudmyla Hrynevych says that “Stalin prepared the Holodomor with the very same methods which Hitler prepared…
The mystery of how Kyivan Rus shaped early Christianity in Norway
The life and legend of Olav Tryggvason are enshrined into Nordic literature. He ruled Norway from the year…
When wars end without recognized victors and vanquished
How wars end is at least as important as how they begin, although that aspect of conflict seldom…
The Ukrainian who set himself on fire protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Vasyl Makukh was born on November 14, 1927 in Lviv Voivodship, Second Polish Republic. He was a veteran…
GULAG was not something far away in Siberia: it was all around, even in Moscow
Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This…
US denounced for suggesting Soviets committed genocide against their own people
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a…
How the UNR Army liberated the Donbas in 1918
- Oleksiy, where did you get the idea to publish this book? Why has the book appeared just…
Strong Ukrainian OUN movement operated in the Donbas during WW2, historians say
- The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) operated actively in the Donbas. Tell us more about that. Alina…
Five lessons for today from the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Some anniversaries are marked because they are so important historically that one cannot understand the present without returning…
Stalin’s terror famine killed Ukrainians at twice the rate of other nationalities, HURI study says
A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in…
Stop building the nation, start modernizing it – Ukrainian history Prof. Hrytsak
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine.…
Mass graves of UPA & OUN partisans discovered in Ternopil Oblast
Scholars and employees of the memorial research enterprise “Dolya” and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance have…
The liars of Kremlin dance on the graves of famine victims
The Holodomor was a famine in Ukraine caused by the Soviet government in 1932 and 1933. It took…
Remnants of a 12th century unique medieval fortification wall discovered in Kyiv
Serhii Taranenko, Head of the Scientific and Research Department of Archaeology at the Kyiv-Pechersk Preserve, told BBC Ukraine…
900-year-old relic found under church floor in Busk, Lviv Oblast
Engolpions* appeared in Kyivan Rus during the expansion of Christianity. The relics of saints or other sacred things…