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Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...

Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...

Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...

Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

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...

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...

"Terrance Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 – May 31, 1970) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey...

A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in Solokha Royal Kurgan in Zaporizhzhia region of...

Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book the way Moscow became the capital of the...

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Soviet renowned Academician Borys Rybakov in his groundbreaking monograph the Handicrafts of Ancient Rus (1948), demonstrated the economic superiority of Kyiv Rus to contemporary...

Rafał Lemkin was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) (Wikipedia). On September...

Kiev Politechnical Institute graduate Dr. Nickolay Shkolnik moved to the USA where he founded his own company and where together with his son...

Last week, Pope Francis provoked outrage by saying Ukraine 'should raise white flag' to end war with Russia. Among many powerful replies by political and...

Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire's best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken from...

"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...

"I believe with many others that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was located in the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas in what is...