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Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...

Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book the way Moscow became the capital of the...

Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbor....

In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...

Napoleon's Address to the Troops on the Beginning of the Russiaii Campaign, May 1812: "Soldiers: The second war of Poland has commenced. The first war...

Nicholas Oresko (January 18, 1917 – October 4, 2013) was an American combat veteran of World War II who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in Germany on January...

Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuguev in what is now Kharkiv oblast of Ukraine. Historically, the region was known...

New York museum has renamed an Edgar Degas painting to recognize its Ukrainian, not Russian, theme, and acknowledged formerly Russia-designated artists as Ukrainian. Barley...

"According to the report, IT service exports became the 2nd largest export industry in 2018. In 2015 Ukrainian IT exports made $2,6 billion, this number increased to $4.5...

Below are several quotes from the works of Robert Graves: "It is not known what sort of a dance...

Ukrainians have been referring to Moscow as Mordor since the beginning of the current war in 2014. And one of the most popular names...

Britannica: More than a thousand years ago a powerful state, Kyv Rus, was founded in an area that is now part of Ukraine. National flags...

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769 – 1834) was a French diplomat known primarily for his close relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. His 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte' is a...