Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers

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Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine

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Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus

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Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article

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The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase

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Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...

Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian

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Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...

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Steve Wozniak visits Kyiv. Says one of his 4 life long...

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10th-century Rhyton from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Local and Indo-Iranian ornamentation motifs

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Name of Lithuanian capital Vilnius may have derived from Ukrainian word...

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Russia’s war economy is a ticking financial time bomb now, –...

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The most important thing President Putin tries to impress on Ukraine’s Western friends is that he has time on his side, so the only...

Leonid Shavrey received the highest radiation dosage among all Chornobyl Firefighters....

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Per Wikipedia page, Leonid M. Shavrey was a Firefighter from the nuclear power plant's fire station (ВПЧ-2). Leonid was among the first firemen to...

Ukrainian language is likely the closest to original Proto-Indo-European language

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‘Chernobyl’ miniseries got many things wrong, – Petro Shavrey

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Cossack Mamai & Kobza-Bandura Music

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Putin strikingly resembles Satan in Medieval Religious Works

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