Russia desiring land of Ukraine. Map of two countries for comparison
It's already - by a long stretch - the largest country in the world occupying 11% of the world's landmass, not much less than...
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and central Kyiv were blown up by the Soviet sappers
John Steinbeck was deceived – the fact is that Kiev was blown up by the Soviets on September 24-28, 1941, after the Nazis had...
Lethal Kittens or how we came to Love our Shovels during a Limited Anti-Terrorist...
" A comic and dramatic story based on the real-life experiences of three volunteer soldiers and the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Anti-Terrorist Operation...
Ukrainian postage stamp to feature mine clearance dog Patron
"Patron" translated into English as Cartridge. The dog is helping to clear the Kyiv region from different kinds of exposived and is almost a...
How Moscow helped Hitler come to power and provided means to start WW2
Each beginning of May in the past couple of decades, the whole of Russia falls into what people of other countries call the Victory...
Map of Ukraine of 1650 by French cartographer Beauplan
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French army engineer, architect, and cartographer. From 1630 to 1648 he was a captain in...
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...
Kyiv Rus’ borders ca. 1000 AD: Largest Kingdom in Christendom
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...
Little Hope for “Little Russia”, – The American Interest
"There is a curious assertion in some circles that a Ukrainian national identity is somehow narrow and bigoted, failing to embrace the country’s...
‘Ukrainian David will defeat Russian Goliath’
Valeria Novodvorskaya was named "Don Quixote of Russian Democracy". Most likely, she was the last true representative of that class. "Publicist, politician, social critic...
