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‘The Tale of Igor’s Campaign’ is a Ukrainian epic about repelling...
Per Wikipedia, 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign' is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. Britannica calls the poem 'The...
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations on Ukrainian Folk Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) used themes from Ukraine for two of his Ten National Airs with Variations, Op. 107 for piano with...
Moscow occupied its part of Poland according to Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact under...
"The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war... The Red Army, which vastly outnumbered the...
Source of the centuries-long conflict and European wars: Ukraine-Russia Orthodox matter...
Quotes below are from "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" by Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing year should remove possible accusation...
Ditches around Scythian Kurgans
Famous Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky who excavated Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan and found the famous Golden Pectoral in it held the view that the ditches...
John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm
"We moved on to a flowered meadow where there were hundreds of beehives, and a little tent where the beekeeper lived. The air was...
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Chumaks, the Ox-Cart Drivers: Ukrainians named the Milky Way Galaxy after...
"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...
Metallica endorses Ukrainian musician-turned-solder’s performance of their ‘Nothing Else Matters’ song...
"We recently learned of Cultural Forces, the cultural arm of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, through our own James Hetfield. @culturalforces.international features seven world-class...
Halting aid to Ukraine would result in up to 20 times...
"In recent weeks, political voices advocating for the reduction or cessation of military support for Ukraine have gained ground in Germany and other nations....
Castles of Kyiv Rus: Why the realm was called Gardariki
The title illustration and the one below were found in the book 'Zhivopisnaya Rossiya', vol. 5 that was published in 1897. The illustration below...
Ukrainian Robotic Exosceleton Startup on MassChallenge Shortlist
"Since March, MassChallenge’s world-class network of investors, serial entrepreneurs, corporate executives, academics, and more have evaluated applications based on each startup’s ability to demonstrate...
First known Scorched Earth method took place in the area of...
The Scorched earth Wikipedia page tells us that "the Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign....
In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
Hohol, Ukrainian Cossacks’ famous haircut was worn by a Kyiv ruler...
"The distinctive mark of a Black Sea Cossack, borne by the lower order among them, of a braided lock from the crown of the...
Water ice in the Korolev crater on Mars
"The stunning Korolev crater in the northern lowlands of Mars is filled with ice all year round owing to a trapped layer of cold Martian air...
Extra-realistic flag of Ukraine
Britannica: More than a thousand years ago a powerful state, Kyv Rus, was founded in an area that is now part of Ukraine. National flags...
Ariadne, Labyrinth dance, spindle-whorls in Scythian tombs
Homer in the Iliad wrote that "Daedalus in Cnossos once contrived; A dancing-floor for fair-haired Ariadne" and scholars are confident that it was the...
Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and...
The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...