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Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
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Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
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Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
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Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
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Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
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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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...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women
“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the
Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine womanly figures. They
have...
Scythian Nation was possibly older than the Egyptian one
We all read that the Scythians were some "Iranian tribes" that moved to the North around the ninth century B.C. Well, that is a...
St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv was created in the 11th century...
"Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kyiv's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the 'new Constantinople', capital of the Christian principality of Kyiv, which was created...
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Ukraine-engineered most powerful ballistic missile SS-18 was used as Dnieper Rocket...
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Largest open-air museum in Europe
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Scythians lived on territory of present-day Ukraine in the Third Millenium...
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Putin suffers Crimea blowback with Orthodox church schizm – Financial Times
When Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrated the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he claimed the disputed peninsula was “spiritually” inseparable from...
Pereyaslavl, Kyiv Rus’ Forpost Against Asiatic Nomads: Volodymyr the Great’s fortresses...
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In 1999, Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova by...
OTD in 1999, the OSCE conference took place in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002....