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Ilya Repin was born on August 5, 1844 in Ukraine. Story...

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On 26 July 1878, he did his first pencil drawing of the merry Zaporozhians drafting their defiant letter to the sultan. Although Repin was...

Israel Zangwill: Russia was largely responsible for the Anti-Jewish pogroms in...

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Israel Zangwill Commends New Republic's Attitude Toward the Jews in Ukraine (A letter from Israel Zangwill, noted writer and President of the Jewish Territorial...

The Rus on al-Kashgari Map of 1074

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According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...

Majority of Russians are Tartars fond of destruction, – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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"I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I believe, this no one will dispute. Inter alia we, all...

Ukraine to send rockets into space from Australia’s Kimberly?

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"Rockets could be blasting into orbit from Derby within five years if the State and Federal governments get behind an ambitious proposal from the...

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...

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Ivan Puluj and long hair of one of his female students

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One of Puluj's students, Katherine Stozitska, after asking permission from her parents, cut her very long hair that was almost touching the ground and...

Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: Gold Torque or Gryvna

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In Mozolevsky's opinion, the gold torque or gryvna found on the lady in Tovsta Mogyla Barrow is one of the best examples known. The...

Best hikes in the world: Ukraine’s Carpatian mountains, – WiredForAdventure

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"Stretching from central to eastern Europe and measuring a whopping 932 miles long, the Carpathian Mountain range is the second longest mountain chain on...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations on Ukrainian Folk Songs

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) used themes from Ukraine for two of his Ten National Airs with Variations, Op. 107 for piano with...

Griffins Pole-Tops from Alexandropol Kurgan

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Scythian bronze Pole-top: figures of griffins, 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. < Scythian Trident Pole Top ...

Russian warship ‘Admiral Makarov’ hit with Neptune missile near Zmiiny island

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There are indications the Russian warship "Admiral Makarov" was hit with a Ukrainian Neptune missile. A ship is on fire near Snake Island in...

Ukraine’s Influence on the Runway Is Bigger Than You Think –...

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https://www.vogue.com/article/ukraine-influence-runway-fashion-week

American Dr. Gale, Chornobyl Firefighters, Bone Marrow Transplants

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Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: "At forty, Gale was a hematologist at the UCLA Medical Center and a...

Marble sarcophagus of King of Kyiv Rus Yaroslav the Wise and...

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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...

Pulitzer Prize Winner, Holodomor Enabler: Walter Duranty

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"Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet...

Syria of Classical Antiquity’s interaction with Scythia-Ukraine in the 6th Century...

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"Meanwhile, the Scythians as allies of the Assyrians tried to raise the siege of Nineveh which was being prosecuted by the Medes; hence a...

Kyiv among 10 of the world’s best city views, – Guardian

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Pastel-hued St Andrew’s Church, at the top of a steep hill in the historic Podil district of Kyiv, has wonderful baroque architecture. But what really...