The auction house Roma Numismatics Limited has listed a silver coin of Grand Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv with the following description of its place of origin: “Russia. Kievan Rus.” This wording shook up a part of the Ukrainian...
“Minister Lavrov got lost in the three pine trees of Russian history. Until the 18th century, his state had one name: Muscovy. In the 10th century, it was Rus who was baptized in Kyiv, not Muscovy. Stealing someone else’s...
The European University specialist says that he will leave to others a critical appraisal of Putin’s words about Ukraine but instead apply “the Putin method” on display in his article to a different task – in...
Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has tried to obliterate Crimea’s diverse cultural heritage. But Crimean history can not be erased. It dates from the earliest antiquity and involves many civilizations through time. Different...
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide launched a special project – ‘Dekulakization: how the Stalinist...
“For the Kremlin, history is not something to be studied and remembered. It is something that must be controlled to justify Russia’s current actions.” This apt observation belongs to Raimonda Miglinaite from the European...
There are numerous kurgans scattered throughout eastern and southern Ukraine and archaeologists and historians are worried that, in many cases, urban sprawl will lead to the destruction of these ancient burial mounds. Thus, they are...
Wild Field Up until the late 17th century, the huge steppe of modern Ukraine’s southeast was the country’s Outback and was often referred to as Dyke Pole, or the Wild Field. The lands had a rather sparse population of...
In the 18th century, Ukraine had the potential to become the European equivalent of the United States in North America. However, given its political culture and geographical location, that happened only partially as the autonomous...
This historical and political game depicts the events that took place in the 17th century in the Zaporozhian Army, or Hetmanate. Hetmanate was the state that encompassed a great part of the Ukrainian ethnic territories at that time. The...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
