The demographic portrait of the region: how Russian propaganda used it The ethnicity map of Ukraine suggests that Putin had a reason to target the territories of Donbas and Crimea. These are the regions with the smallest percentage of...
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler on the basis that the treaty of Versailles had treated Germany too harshly and the belief that Hitler was...
Many people believe that the “post-truth” period the world is entering now is something new, but in fact, most people historically and those who lived in totalitarian regimes in the recent past have existed in a...
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of the Russian Empire and Civil War,” Galia Ackerman says; and “no one denies that thousands of Ukrainians, especially...
Famous Ukrainian political prisoner Yevhen Sverstiuk died at the age of 86 after a long illness. This was reported to Radio Liberty by his friend, dissident Vasyl Ovsiyenko. According to him, this happened on Monday, December 1, around...
Until recently, 28 October was celebrated in Ukraine as the “Day of liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders.” On the round date of 70 years of this date in 2014, Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory proposes to...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...