Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine

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https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...

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https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska

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“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

The Rus are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...

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“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]

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https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...

Wine Preferences of Royal Scythians: Story of nearly 500 Greek Amphoras...

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https://youtu.be/wATY2fhj5Zc During the 1855 excavations of the Central Tomb of Alexandropol Kurgan, the archaeologists discovered a niche in the western wall that was filled with...

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Russia desiring land of Ukraine. Map of two countries for comparison

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It's already - by a long stretch - the largest country in the world occupying 11% of the world's landmass, not much less than...

John Steinbeck praises Ukrainian hospitality and cuisine: ‘Ukrainian borscht is a...

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Ukrainian Village House There is a hall, which is a combination storeroom and entrance.From there one goes into the kitchen, a white plaster room, with...

Not Iranians. Scythians originated in Ukraine [Yamna + Trypillia Cultures], –...

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In 2025, an article by geneticists Lehti Saag, Olga Utevska, and a number of Ukrainian archaeologists was published ‘North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine...

“Baida” in Ukrainian means…

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"Baida" in Ukrainian means an easy-going, somewhat mischevious person. There are several Ukrainian folk songs devoted to baida. Like this one for xample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkcDElc8Nk&ab_channel=TarasZhytynsky And...

11 of the best things to do and see in Kiev,...

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"Kiev is an unusual city. Vast and busy, but surprisingly quiet. A bit aloof. It feels a million miles away from other great capitals of Europe, and...

Scythians and Cannabis: making clothes, steam-bathing, getting high

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Did you know that when you say 'Cannabis' you 'speak Scythian'? If you did not know that, now you do, because according to Wikipedia,...

Sharp difference exists between Ukrainians and Russians, – Ivan Bunin, the...

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Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried...

Russian Fascism

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"Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a...

Moscow knew of Chornobyl Fourth Reactor flaws before the Test, –...

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Yuriy Shcherbak, a Ukrainian Doctor of Medicine and writer became known internationally because of his documentary novel about the Chornobyl tragedy. His "Chornobyl" which contains...

In 12th century the land is first mentioned as Ukraine. Russia...

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For the first time Ukraine was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle. Not Little Rus’ or something else, but Ukraine.  Nobody heard about Moscow and Russia at that...