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‘Amazon in Battle’ scene on golden scabbard from Chertomlyk Royal Barrow...

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The sheath was first described for international audience in the "Scythians and Greeks" book by E. Minns published in 1913. Below is a drawing...

The first known European leaflet depicting Russian/ Moscovite atrocities against women...

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“The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter …” which translates into English...

Solomiya Krushelnytska, world-famous Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano of the first half of...

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Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872 – 1952) was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano, considered to be one of the brightest opera stars of the first half of the...

Kyiv Rus’ borders ca. 1000 AD: Largest Kingdom in Christendom

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Although this map was published by National Geographic in 1987 and should be commended for marking what is now the present-day Kerch Strait as being controlled...

Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’

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Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722 – 1794) was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a poet, a teacher, and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations...

Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears...

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"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...

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US veterans in Ukraine rail against peace plan, call Trump a...

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Veterans fighting for Ukraine’s foreign legion label president a ‘coward’ who won’t stand up to Putin. US military volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine’s armed forces have...

Marble sarcophagus of King of Kyiv Rus Yaroslav the Wise and...

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Weighing 6 tons, it is located at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yaroslav the Wise married Ingegerd Olofsdotter, daughter of Olof Skötkonung, the king of Sweden...

Elbe Day iconic photo: American Robertson and Ukrainian Silvashko

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April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany...

Teenager Daria Bilodid, Ukraine, makes Judo history

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Paris Grand Slam gold medallist Daria BILODID (UKR) was crowned the youngest world judo champion in history with a sensational performance in Baku....

In 1999, Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova by...

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OTD in 1999, the OSCE conference took place in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002....

The first Scorched Earth policy was used by Scythians in the...

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Scorched earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and...

George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the...

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George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...

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

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British philologist William Jones in early 1786 voiced his famous "Phililoger Passage" which is considered the beginning of Indo-European studies. Here is what Jones...

Armenia’s most famous rulers were of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, –...

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Moses of Chorene (c. 410–490s AD) was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses identified himself as a young disciple...

The Telegraph: Jeff Koon accused of copying Ukrainian artist’s work

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/25/jeff-koons-accused-copying-ukrainian-artists-work/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb

25 years ago by signing Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave away the...

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"In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine”...