Russian Empire Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Opinion

One grandmother’s howl echoes centuries of Ukraine’s fight against Russian Empire

In a Ukrainian churchyard, an elderly woman's memories - spanning from pre-revolutionary Russia through Stalin's Holodomor to Nazi occupation - reveal why today's Ukrainians are fighting for a future free from imperial control, writes former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff.

byMichael Ignatieff

6 minute read

Analysis

Russia is the last European colonial empire, but the West looks away. Expert explains why

One empire remains overlooked as the world grapples with colonial legacies: Russia. Historian Botakoz Kassymbekova warns that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine isn't mere aggression but a continuation of centuries-old colonial ambitions.

byBohdan Ben

Shadow of the Empire: Why Russia's Ethnic Minorities Fear Independence

7 minute read

Shadow of the empire: Why Russia’s indigenous nations fear independence

Shunned both by the West and Russia’s liberal opposition, indigenous activists find new ways to challenge Russia’s colonial ways — and rekindle their people’s will to independence.

byBohdan Ben

serhii plokhy harvard historian ukrainian studies

7 minute read

Ukraine helped build the Russian empire. Now it stands in the way of its resurrection – Serhii Plokhii

After the Russian Empire conquered Ukraine in the 18th century, the myth of a triune Rus emerged to…

byBohdan Ben

Latest news Ukraine

Putin sets conditions for protracted war, wants to reconstruct Russian Empire in some form – ISW

Russian President Vladimir Putin is setting conditions for a protracted war of conquest in Ukraine, the Institute for…

byOrysia Hrudka

10 minute read

Why Russia is invading Ukraine

Imagine a contemporary French President ordering the French army to occupy the German Saarland, and then say: “Germany…

byBohdan Ben

8 minute read

Recovering the forgotten names of the Ukrainian avant-garde

Prior to 1917, four-fifths of the territory of contemporary Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire for…

byBohdan Ben

17 minute read

The rise and decline of Donbas: How communists tried to make this Ukrainian mining region “the heart of USSR” and how it fell into Russian occupation in 2014

Despite the dominance of the Russian language and the Soviet image of Donbas as predominantly Russian, 56% of people in this Ukrainian easternmost region identified themselves as Ukrainians.

byBohdan Ben