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Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian eccentric Chess Grandmaster

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Vasyl Ivanchuk was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three...

Trump-Putin Pact resembling Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact seems to be in the works:...

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Just a couple of weeks ago, it appeared that what the Trump Administration was doing resembled what Chamberlain had done in 1938 - appeasement...

Trump blaming Ukraine for starting the war with Russia is akin...

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Feb. 19, 2025, NBC News: "President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's invasion of the country three years ago, arguing...

Sevastopol – the city of Ukrainian Valor: Crimean War of 1854

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Both Russian historical science and propaganda present the slogan “Sevastopol is the city of Russian glory” as an undeniable truth. They linked it, first...

Gen Kellog’s daughter Meaghan Mobbs, ardent supporter of Ukraine, – WP

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" Kellogg is no dove on Russia, and neither is his offspring. Kellogg’s daughter is Meaghan Mobbs, president of the R.T. Weatherman Foundation and a graduate...

Ukrainian postage stamp to feature mine clearance dog Patron

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"Patron" translated into English as Cartridge. The dog is helping to clear the Kyiv region from different kinds of exposived and is almost a...

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Igor Sikorsky assembled his first helicopters while still a student in...

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In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries and...

Antonov helps out Boeing in the extreme freezing conditions

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Ukrainian AN-124 "Ruslan" made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Canadian Iqaluit with an engine for Boeing-777 which had to make an emergency landing...

Zaporozhian Rapids were flooded by the Hydroelectric Station projected by the...

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The DniproHES project used the experience gained from the construction of the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations at Niagara Falls, Ontario, the Hydroelectric...

Russian Orthodox Church was formed by the Golden Horde

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Harvard Professor Richard Pipes stated in his 'Russia Under the Old Regime': "The Golden Age of the Orthodox Church in Russia coincided with Mongol...

Russians hurl accusations at their victims in order to justify their...

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"During his change of horse-relays, Turgenev asked to see Custine. There then ensued, presumably at the postal station, a most curious verbal exchange, the...

Britain needs Ukrainian procurement system, – Sky News

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"Last year, I visited Kiev to see the most advanced procurement system in the world. Called ProZorro, after the Ukrainian for "transparency", the system was...

Ukrainian Yevdokia Zavaliy, the only Soviet female commander of a Marines...

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Born in 1924, Yevdokia Zavaliy was raised in a small village in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, where she worked on a farm. She was brutally exposed...

Armenia’s most famous rulers were of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, –...

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Moses of Chorene (c. 410–490s AD) was a prominent Armenian historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians. Movses identified himself as a young disciple...

Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2,...

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“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were over the flat...

Who really owns borsch – BBC

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"The problem with this statement is that Ancient Rus was centred in Kyiv (Kiev in Russian), now the capital of Ukraine. Over the...