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Powerful speech in Canadian Parliament by “proud Ukrainian-Canadian” Minister of Foreign...

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Ms. Chrystia Freeland who called herself a proud Ukrainian-Canadian delivered a strong speech in Canadian Parliament yesterday. "The single most important pillar of this, which emerged following the...

Border between Muscovy and Ukraine in 1654 described by Syrian chronicler...

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"...Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had...

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...

Heart-shaped ornamentations on Kyiv Rus textiles 1000 years ago. ‘Sacral Ivy’?

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What could that ornamentation be? The author of this article thinks that it is a representaion of an ivy leaf. We see this plant...

Monuments to Igor Sikorsky in Kyiv opened by Mayor Vitaly Klitschko

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Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and achieved world fame while still living in it. For example, he set the World Speed Record and...

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Oguz Scythian Royal Kurgan: Second Largest in Ukraine

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With 20m in height, Oguz was the second-largest Scythian barrow situated in the lower Dnieper area. Alexandropol Kurgan was the first with 24m, Chertomlyk...

Bohdan Khmelnitsky’s Army and Cossack Government described by Paul of Aleppo...

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"Now these accounts of Akhmil and the Cossacks, which we have so distinctly commemorated, were collected with the utmost care; and noted by me...

The Swiss Secrets of Alexander Archipenko – Harvard Ukrainian Studies

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"Contemporaries and scholars of Archipenko acknowledge the influence of his ideas on the development of twentieth-century sculpture. Gino Severini, who met him in Paris in...

Bilsk Scythian archaeological complex in Ukraine: Largest Fortified Settlement of the...

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Located in the Ukrainian forest steppe, the Bilsk archaeological complex is the largest archaeological site in the region, covering an area of about 5000...

How Peter I of Russia capitulated to Turks: Pruth Campaign

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After the Poltava defeat, the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and Hetman Mazepa of Ukraine stayed in Moldova which was under the protection of...

How Australia Welcomed ‘Sky Monster’ – AN-225 Mriya

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Igor Sikorsky assembled his first helicopters while still a student in...

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In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries and...

In 1860, Russians constituted in Kyiv region – 1%, in Kharkiv...

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Theodore de Pauly, a member of the newly founded Imperial Russian Geographical Society (founded 1845), was the latest in a line of ethnographers, seeking...

Scythian Couple locked in loving embrace for 3,000 years found...

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The burial of the Scythian pair, husband and wife was found in the Ternopil region in Ukraine. It dates to circa 1,000 B.C. Professor...

Israeli currency features notable Jewish figures from Ukraine

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"The Government of Israel has issued new twenty- and fifty-shekel banknotes, having replaced two natives of Ukraine with two cultural figures also connected...

Muscovy-Russia on the map of the Mongolian Empire

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Ex-Mongolian Leader Shares Empire Map to Mock Putin's Ukraine Claims Putin has relied on historical borders to argue Ukraine is part of Russia and to...