Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’
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...
Go west to Lviv, visitor to Ukraine, – The Washington Post
This quaint city (pronounced Liv-eev in Ukrainian) looks like an old-school European destination, complete with cobblestone streets, classical music festivals and its wild...
Taras Shevchenko Memorial in Washington, DC
The monument of Taras Shevchenko, 19th century Ukrainian poet and fighter for the independence of Ukraine and the freedom of all mankind, who under...
William Kurelek & his Ukrainian Maze
Future "Christian mystic, bestselling author and illustrator", William Kurelek was the eldest of the seven children of Ukrainian emmigrant family in northern Alberta and Manitoba. Experience of his...
Source of the centuries-long conflict and European wars: Ukraine-Russia Orthodox matter explained using Yale...
Quotes below are from "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" by Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing year should remove possible accusation...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
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This man coined the word ‘Genocide’. Here is Dr Lemkin’s speech on Holodomor in...
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...
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...
Ilya Repin: Only Ukrainian and Parisian women know how to dress with taste!
Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuguev in what is now Kharkiv oblast of Ukraine. Historically, the region was known...
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...
