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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Baturyn massacre which brought Russian Empire to rank of global powers and destroyed Ukrainian Cossack state recalled
The Baturyn massacre was never properly researched prior to Ukraine regaining independence in 1991. Since 1995, archaeologists have…
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…
Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict reaches back to the times when Ukraine emerged on the world map. In fact, it…
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…
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…
Russia lacks a state in the normal sense, Polikovsky and Oreshkin say
Russia has never had a state in the normal sense of the term and does not have one…
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…
Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today
Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…
“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
The American style of identity Moscow fears to seek for Russians
Those in Moscow who want Russians and non-Russians within the borders of the Russian Federation to give up…
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…
Another baker’s dozen of neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
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…
Crimea: the Russian chauvinists’ inferiority complex
Vladimir Putin has been mentioning Crimea frequently in the recent days. He either gives history lessons, saying some…