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‘Poetic talent existed in my father’s Ukrainian family,’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s daughter. Lithuanian-Ukrainian roots...

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Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book 'Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter', originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

Russians looted toilets in Western Ukraine during WW1 already

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Battle of Galicia also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914. In the...

Russians are ‘lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan’, – Sir Winston...

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"Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also...

American humanitarian aid during Russian Famine of 1891‒92

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In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...

Ungrateful Russians forget how many times Americans saved them: Russian Povolzhye Famine of 1921-22

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In The Russian Job, Douglas Smith’s account of the American Relief Administration’s effort to alleviate the catastrophic famine that afflicted Russia from 1921-23, Smith tells...

Russia is a ‘cancer’ that could destroy the world, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader says

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The world needs to be cured of Russia, the first president of post-Soviet Lithuania said Friday. “Russia has become a cancer of Europe and the...

Year of the Snake has frequently been tumultuous for Russia, – Garry Kasparov

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The Year of the Snake has frequently been tumultuous for Russia. Revolutions in 1905 and 1917, collectivization & purges in 29, the war in...

Ukraine has more rights to the UN Security Council Permanent Member Status than Russia

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Statement of the MFA of Ukraine on the illegitimacy of the Russian Federation's presence in the UN Security Council and in the United Nations...

George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the Best Book about...

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George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...

Devilish cruelty is the most striking feature of the Russian national character, – Maxim...

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Maxim Gorky (1868 –1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer who was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1922, Gorky published the...