October 21: 70th anniversary of Soviet Operation Zapad
The main organizers and executors of the deportation were the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of…
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Despite differences in historical issues, Poland wants partnership with Ukraine – Polish FM
Despite a number of complex problems in bilateral relations, in particular, differences in historical issues, Warsaw considers Kyiv…
Excavations in Ternopil Oblast reveal mass grave of OUN members executed by Gestapo
Volodymyr Kharchuk, deputy director of “Dolya” stated that no one knew the exact place of the grave, but…
History as a weapon in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Instead, the Ukrainian independence struggle looks set to be airbrushed out of the Bolshevik spectacular, much as it…
Why the Holodomor is genocide under UN convention: On Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine
Between 1932–33, Stalin sought to wipe out the very concept of an independent Ukraine by targeting its peasantry…
Artist creates portraits of Ukrainian Hetmans
“When I looked through my son’s textbooks, I was surprised to see how realistically Polish kings and Russian…
The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 and why it matters for historians of the Russian revolution(s)
As a hundred years of eyewitness-participant accounts and later historians’ scholarship have long affirmed, the Revolutions of 1917…
Illusion of a friendly empire: Russia, the West, and Ukraine’s independence a century ago
After World War I, the nascent Ukrainian state, which also tried to break away with the empire, did…
Three years after deadliest battle in Donbas, official investigation skims over guilt of Ukrainian command
The investigation into the responsibility of Ukrainian commanders is highly important not only for the sake of historical…
Meet the Ukrainians who returned to live in Chornobyl
On 26 April 1986, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant's fourth reactor exploded. The radioactivity affected the population, plants,…
Unique 1919-1920 map of Ukraine exhibited in Prague
The exhibition titled “The Refugee Experience: The Fate of Refugees from the Territory of the Former Russian Empire…
Seeking to avoid another 1991, Kremlin takes a step making that more likely, Galkina says
Arguing that “there is no truer path to the collapse of a system than the hyper-centralization of authority,”…
Russians urged to reflect on ‘inexplicable paradoxes of the Soviet Union’
A Moscow blogger has suggested that Russians now, when thinking about the Soviet past, should reflect on what…
Mass graves of victims of political repression discovered in Ivano-Frankivsk
According to eyewitnesses, the employees of Prykarpattyaoblenergo did not initially understand what they were looking at even though…
Beer labels, passports now apples of discord among Poles, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians
Peoples who live in regions where borders have been changed frequently often find themselves at odds with each…
Old UPA docs reveal revolutionary activities in Soviet Ukraine in 1950s
The container has a number – 8809, and a date - 1946. The Soviet government purposely numbered and…
Six things to watch for in Ukraine’s Independence Day Parade 2017
The many generations of fighters for Ukraine’s freedom - from the UNR Army (Ukrainian National Republic declared on…
Story of Frants Brzhezytsky, last Ukrainian survivor of Majdanek concentration camp
Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on…
‘Almost like a century ago’ – Tatars again organize an alternative state in Russia
Last week, the World Congress of Tatars resolved to create its own national council, the Milli Shura, an…
Old UPA documents found in forest near Lviv
“Yesterday (Saturday, August 5, 2017) was a most interesting day. That’s why I love walking and digging in…