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Helping Ukraine win is the best option for the West, allowing Russia to win...

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The United States has a much higher stake in Russia's war on Ukraine than most people think. A Russian conquest of all of Ukraine...

OTD in 1998, Ukraine and the U.S. signed an agreement to eliminate 44 Ukrainian...

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Here is how it looked back then: "Ukraine dismantled its last strategic bomber during a May 17 ceremony at an airfield in Uzin attended...

Russian is a dialect of Ukrainian language, – famous lexicographer Vladimir Dal concluded

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The most prominent lexicographer of the Russian language Vladimir Dal was born in 1801 in what is now Lugansk oblast of Ukraine. His Danish father and...

Kyiv Rus’ borders ca. 1000 AD: Largest Kingdom in Christendom

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Although this map was published by National Geographic in 1987 and should be commended for marking what is now the present-day Kerch Strait as being controlled...

Zhukov described to Eisenhower the Russian way to cross minefield in WW2: “Our infantry...

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In his book of wartime memoirs Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower recollects his conversation with Marshal Zhukov, which shocked him: “During our hours on...

The Crimean War started on March 27, 1854: Parallels to current Russia’s War on...

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The experience of the Crimean War of 1854 has several striking analogies with Putin’s war on Ukraine that started in 2014 with the invasion...

‘Kremlin’ derives from Tartar word for fortress

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British traveler of the 18th century Dr. Clarke sounded very confident describing the etymology of the word 'Kremlin'. In his bestselling book 'Travels in...

Russia weaponizes history in its war against Ukraine, – British Intelligence

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The title image of this post is a screenshot of the UK Defence Intelligence review on Twitter dated 11 November. The author of the article you...

In 1999, Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova by end of 2002

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OTD in 1999, the OSCE conference took place in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002....

Russian Orthodox Church, KGB outlet

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Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "There is another critical legacy of the Soviet experiment with...