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Scythian Farmers, Skoloti, Proto-Slavs, Rus-Ukraine
Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
Warrior in Chamber-Grave at Golden Gates in Kyiv: King Dir, ‘the...
The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...
Sword Hilts of Kyiv Rus: Ahead of Western Europe and Vikings...
"We have irrefutable evidence that at least the sword hilts were made in Rus cities. Regarding the peculiar hilts of the swords from...
Battle Axes of Kyiv Rus: Nearly perfect efficiency ahead of time
“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...
Kyiv Was Powerful Capital City in the 9th Century Already: Vikings...
Soviet renowned Academician Borys Rybakov in his groundbreaking monograph the Handicrafts of Ancient Rus (1948), demonstrated the economic superiority of Kyiv Rus to contemporary...
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Invading Poland in 1939, Moscow used the same rhetoric and excuse...
Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...
The U.S. is violating the Budapest Memorandum by pressuring Ukraine to...
Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed on December 5, 1994, states: "The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: A Pendant Earring
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Scythian ceremonial gilded silver cup from Gaimanova Mogila Royal Kurgan in...
"The most outstanding work of Scytho-Classical art found in the Gaimanova Mogila kurgan is a small spherical gilded silver cup, with two flat horizontal...
‘Russians’ are the Volga Finns, not Slavs
Waiver: All nations are equal and the Finns are one of the most advanced nations in Europe these days. The reason for writing this...
25 years ago by signing Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave away the...
"In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine”...
The World’s First Kidney Transplant by Ukrainian Dr. Yurii Voronyi in...
Yurii Voronyi (1895-1961) was the first doctor in the world to perform renal transplantation in the clinic. The operation was conducted in 1933 in...
Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
10th-century Rhyton from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Local and Indo-Iranian ornamentation motifs
“The famous silver mounting of a bull's horn from Chernaya Mogila is a magnificent example of flat embossing. A unique example of 10th-century...
Marble sarcophagus of King of Kyiv Rus Yaroslav the Wise and...
Weighing 6 tons, it is located at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yaroslav the Wise married Ingegerd Olofsdotter, daughter of Olof Skötkonung, the king of Sweden...
Ukrainian-American Sgt. Michael Strank was 1 of 6 Marines who raised...
" Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of...
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Ihor Sykorski - the father of helicopter engineering. Assembled his first two trial helicopters while still living in his native Kiev. He also engineered...