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Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s daughter: ‘Ukraine is the most poetic of all the...

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Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan...

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As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...

Taiho, arguably the greatest Sumo wresler of all time, was of...

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According to Wikipedia, Taihō Kōki - (Іва́н Бори́шко, Ivan Boryshko; May 29, 1940 – January 19, 2013) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the...

Proto-Indo-European homeland was in what is today Ukraine, – American Professor

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"I believe with many others that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was located in the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas in what is...

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...

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...

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Borscht. The Beginning

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The ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ story describes Kyiv under Moscow’s occupation

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The 'Fiddler on the Roof' can help one to get a sense of what it was like to live in the Pale of Settlement,...

Anatoly Dyatlov was pressured by Moscow to proceed with the Chornobyl...

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In 2011, Fakty-Ukraine published an interview with Boris Gorbachev, a nuclear physicist from Kyiv. In it, he says the following: "I could not find...

Ukrainian Borscht inscribed on the UNESCO List on Intangible Cultural Heritage

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"Ukrainian borscht - national version of borscht consumed in several countries of the region - is an integral part of Ukrainian family and community...

Scythian Couple locked in loving embrace for 3,000 years found...

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The burial of the Scythian pair, husband and wife was found in the Ternopil region in Ukraine. It dates to circa 1,000 B.C. Professor...

Ukrainians are a brotherly nation to the Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. They...

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At around 1800, famous English traveler Edward Daniel Clarke described his first impressions after meeting Ukrainians: "We began to perceive that the farther we...

War in Ukraine was years in the making – Atlantic Council

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http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/war-in-ukraine-was-years-in-the-making

Ukrainian Cossacks’ Songs Added to UNESCO List

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It is UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding List. https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/cossacks-songs-of-dnipropetrovsk-region-01194

Historic Event – Holy Synod proceeds to the granting of Autocephaly...

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4) To revoke the legal binding of the Synodal Letter of the year 1686, issued for the circumstances of that time, which granted the...

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...

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces Dog

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(Probably not, but looking cool and threatening)

Serpent Goddess and Progenitress of the Scythian Nation: Gold frontlet from...

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"On the S. side of the river, in the district of Melitopol, government of Taurida, is the barrow Tsymbalka near Bélozérka. As usual, the...