Who really owns borsch – BBC
"The problem with this statement is that Ancient Rus was centred in Kyiv (Kiev in Russian), now the capital of Ukraine. Over the...
Ukrainian Bandura: Soul of the Nation
National music instrument may tell a lot about the nation itself. About its soul expressed in melody of its songs for example. And it is...
‘Russian Peace’ is the triumph of Evil: Pope Francis gets a powerful reply from...
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...
Historic Event – Holy Synod proceeds to the granting of Autocephaly to the Church...
4) To revoke the legal binding of the Synodal Letter of the year 1686, issued for the circumstances of that time, which granted the...
World-famous painter Ilya Repin portrayed two nations – Ukrainians above, Russians below
The painter is Ukrainian (now officailly according to MetMuseum) Ilya Repin. The upper painting is the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Turkish Sultan,...
Odesa, the craddle of Israeli culture, enjoys a Jewish Rennaissance
The history of Odessa is also the history of Tel Aviv. Long before the State of Israel was founded, the Jewish community in...
Yin-Yang symbol was created in more northern area than China?
The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...
10th-century Easter Egg from Kyiv Rus discovered in Sweden
"Glazed ceramic Resurrection egg. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark green. The...
Yin-Yang symbol originated in the area of present-day Ukraine
The earliest known depiction of Yin-Yang symbol belongs to the Trypillia culture and dates to 5200 B.C. The oldest preserved drawing of this symbol...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
