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Another Russian warship reportedly on fire near Zmiiny island in Black...
Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate of the Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet is reportedly on fire near Zmiiny island in the Black Sea. Multiple aircraft, rescue...
Novgorod the Great was a ‘Ukrainian’ city founded by Kyiv a...
Per Wikipedia, Valentin Yanin (1929 - 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles whose expertise was especially Novgorod the Great, where he...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: Headdress
As mentioned earlier, a Scythian woman and a child were buried in the side vault of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan. In the same chamber...
Priestess in Golden Tiara with Maenads from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan in...
"In the northern part into which the passage led lay a narrow board 2m. long with a hole to hold the bottom of the...
Honoré de Balzac in Ukraine: the Kingdom of Wheat, the Prairies...
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a well-known French writer who produced an enormous number of novels and short stories depicting the French society of...
Ukraine’s Snake (Zmiiny) Island Is Where Achilles Supposedly Went Mad and...
At last world media start seeing that some of the Greek myths actually take place in the area of present-day Ukraine. "The most striking...
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Who Was Buried in Alexandropol Kurgan: Skulls from Scythian Royal Barrow
A.E. Liutsenko who excavated Alexandropol kurgan in 1854–55, was the first who preserved the skulls of the people who were buried in it. Unfortunately,...
Chornobyl reactors could be switched to enriching plutonium for military purposes
"If anything, the military purpose of Chernobyl-2 is a reminder that the purpose of the Chernobyl power station was never entirely civilian, either. While...
Ukrainian borscht among 20 of the world’s best soups according to...
Chunks of tender beets swim in brilliant red broth for a soup that's beloved in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe. Often topped with a...
War in Ukraine was years in the making – Atlantic Council
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/war-in-ukraine-was-years-in-the-making
Border between Muscovy and Ukraine in 1654 described by Syrian chronicler...
"...Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had...
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a legal dispute over ancient...
"AMSTERDAM — Ukraine and Russia are locked in another heated battle over Crimea. But this dispute is playing out in court, with the two neighbors locked...
In 1650, Kyiv had impressive ramparts remains, deep protective ditches, tombs...
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Here is his description of Kyiv around the year 1650: "Kiow, otherwise called...
Scythian Sacred Land of Gerroi and of Royal Barrows was the...
'The Father of History" Herodotus described the location of the royal Scythian necropolis in Book 4.71: "The kings of Scythia are buried in the...
10 Ukrainian Castles
"From the 13th century, the territory was widely contested and fought over between Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. A Cossack...
Amazon Sarcophagus from Terquinii, Etruscan Culture
The sarcophagus, painted with various scenes of an Amazonomachia, was discovered in 1869 in a grave at a little distance from Corneto, a city in...
+Ulfberh+T Viking-type sword that most likely belonged to Kyiv King Sviatoslav...
The sword, which is associated with the name of Sviatoslav the Brave, was accidentally 'fished out' on November 7, 2011 near Khortytsia Island. The...