Ukraine seeks to reclaim history by reframing Russia as “Moscovia”
On 22 October 1721, Moscow Tsar Peter I renamed the Moscow Tsardom into the Russian Empire. He chose…
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Is Volodymyr the Great a prince of Kyivan Rus or Ukraine-Rus?
The auction house Roma Numismatics Limited has listed a silver coin of Grand Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv with…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister reminded his Russian counterpart what Russia was called until the 18th century
“Minister Lavrov got lost in the three pine trees of Russian history. Until the 18th century, his state…
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…
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…
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…
Russian war with Ukraine a clash of civilizations, Ikhlov says
Russian aggression in Ukraine which is seeking to rejoin Europe is a clash of civilizations that has its…
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…
Ukrainian suggestion that Russia should be called Muscovy infuriates Russians
Even though Russian officials and commentators have felt free to call Ukraine and Ukrainians other names, the suggestion…
“Malorossiya”: yet another Russian imperial myth salvaged from the garbage dump of history
Where did Zakharchenko’s aides pick up the name for their new utopia, the “state of Malorossiya” as a…
Ukrainian parliament mulls requiring officials to call the Russian state ‘Muscovy’
Two deputies from the Radical Party, Andrey Lozovoy and Oksana Korchinskaya, introduced a bill in the Ukrainian parliament…
Why there are Muslim crescents on Orthodox crosses in Moscow but not in Kyiv
Orthodox churches in Moscow built before 1700 feature crosses with a Muslim crescent moon on them, a feature…
For Russians, Ukraine is a South Korea to Russia’s North, Zhordan says
In Soviet times, “there was no other Russian country with an alternative system” to which Russians could go…
Tatar historian: ‘Russians are no more European than are the Tatars’
European scholars now recognize that no one can understand the present without a thorough understanding of the Middle…