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Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika (UNR) / Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1921)

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Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika (UNR) / Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1921)

The Ukrainian People’s Republic or Ukrainian National Republic (Ukrainian: Українська Народна Республіка, Ukrajinśka Narodna Respublika; abbreviated УНР, UNR), a predecessor of modern Ukraine, was declared (on 10 June 1917) – at first as a part of the Russian Republic after the Russian Revolution – but proclaimed its independence on 25 January 1918.

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Culture of Ukraine

Inside Ukraine’s lost sovereignty battle that created world’s favorite Christmas song

A century ago, Ukraine's desperate fight for independence from Russia led to the boldest soft power gamble in history — and gave birth to the world’s most iconic Christmas hit.

byOksana Ostapchuk

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The defeat that won’t repeat: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a century ago & now

The situation in and around Ukraine is increasingly reminiscent of the Sudetenland Crisis in 1938 and the Cuban…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Ukraine

Documentary rediscovers iconic designer of 1917 Ukrainian state symbols. Watch it here

Read also: Takflix: a platform where you can finally watch Ukrainian films online The project Narbut XXI marks…

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83-86% of the Black Sea Cossacks in Kuban region were Ukrainian

– There’s a rather widespread Ukrainian stereotype that “Kuban is Ukraine”. In fact, everything was very ambiguous a…

byRadio Liberty

Global history makes much more sense with "hyper typical" Ukrainian history inside it - Prof. Snyder

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Ukrainian history gift to global history – Prof. Snyder

Historically, Ukraine is not exceptional, but it is “hyper typical” of major trends in the last 100 years,…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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History of Ukraine

National museum exhibits documents from first Ukrainian republic

This envelope has been brought back to Ukraine after almost a hundred years. Sealed with wax, it was…

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History of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 and why it matters for historians of the Russian revolution(s)

As a hundred years of eyewitness-participant accounts and later historians’ scholarship have long affirmed, the Revolutions of 1917…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Illusion of a friendly empire: Russia, the West, and Ukraine’s independence a century ago

After World War I, the nascent Ukrainian state, which also tried to break away with the empire, did…

byIhor Vynokurov

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The Bolbochan raid: How Ukrainian troops captured Crimea 100 years ago

– Salaam Aleikum! Don’t shoot! Glory to Ukraine! They moved forward and stood under the only lamp…

byUkrainian media sources

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Ukrainians worldwide to commemorate Act of Unity on January 22

Around three million people in Ukraine took each others hands and connected Kyiv and Lviv via a real human chain.…

byOlena Makarenko