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Daily review: Turkey to maintain course of Bayraktar drone project, international flurry ahead of Putin-Biden call, 30 years of Ukrainian Army

Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reports Russian-led militants launch 1 attack on Novoselivka, Donetsk Oblast.…

byBohdan Ben

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History of Ukraine

Which western bands were banned in the USSR?

KISS – neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin – punk, violence Madonna – sex What the hell is this?…

byKGB Files

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History of Ukraine

The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal

One summer day in 1969, three schoolchildren of about 12-14 years of age, were strolling in the woods…

byKGB Files

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Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty

Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…

byRobert van Voren

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How to be a Finn if you’re a Soviet spy: KGB’s illustrated tips from the 1970s

First, I want to tell you a joke. Many a true word is spoken in jest. A scout…

byKGB Files

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10 things the KGB didn’t want you to know about Chernobyl

At the end of April, we observed the 35th anniversary of the event that has changed the world,…

byKGB Files

Ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear power station. Photo: belaruspartisan.org

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Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster

The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…

byPaul A. Goble

Top of the first page of the recently declassified KGB report dated January 26, 1946 and addressed to the then-head of the Communist Party in Ukraine Nikita Khrushchev titled "SPECIAL MESSAGE about the atrocities committed by servicemen of the 10th motorized-mechanized division commanded by Major-General PAVLOV to civilian inhabitants of the village Velykyi Zhytyn, Oleksandriyskyi, raion, Rivne oblast (Ukraine)."

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KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945

Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic…

byPaul A. Goble

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Soviet special services regularly reinforced Politburo’s view of the world, archives in Ukraine show

The archive contains some 1300 folders with the first reports being from the 1920s and the last from…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byChristine Chraibi

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Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster

In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…

byPaul A. Goble

Rescuers digging for survivors after bombing of an apartment building on Kashira Road in Moscow, Russia, 13 September 1999. This and other similar terror acts in Russia were used by Putin to start another war in Chechnya. According to former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko murdered by his former FSB colleagues in London and other experts, the FSB conducted the bombings on Putin's orders to boost his election chances. (Image: Wikipedia)

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Putin created unit that blew up apartment blocks in 1999 a year ahead of time, Kruglov says

Drawing on his contacts that he had developed with the criminal world during his first years in the…

byPaul A. Goble

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Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”

In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the…

byBohdan Ben

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Russian lawyer who conducted ‘secret Nuremberg’ against Stalinists brings archive to the West

A Russian lawyer who posed as a Stalinist and sought the rehabilitation of Stalin criminals, sometimes successfully and…

byPaul A. Goble

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Hybrid War

The hard fate of foreign Russia-lovers: Ksenia Kirillova on the Paul Whelan case

For at least the past five years, Russia is steadfastly ratcheting up conflicts with Europe and the United…

byKseniya Kirillova

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Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)

12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.

byEuromaidan Press Staff