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Kyiv controlled the Kerch Strait in 11th century AD: Stone of...
Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in the 1669 issue of The London...
The London Gazette - Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and...
Important Chernyakhiv Culture Was Local to Ancient Kyiv Rus-Ukraine: It was...
Wikipedia page states that the Chernyakhiv Archaeological Culture “territorially replaced its predecessor, the Zarubintsy culture. Both cultures were discovered by the Czech archaeologist Vikentiy...
Ancient Agrarian Calendar on 4th-century Romashky Jug found near Kyiv: Ties...
The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...
Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?
“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...
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The Groenings, The Simpsons and Ukraine
"The Simpsons” is the best satire of contemporary American culture. For those interested in Mennonites involved in mass culture, it is also a case...
‘Poetic talent existed in my father’s Ukrainian family,’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s...
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...
Russian Orthodox Church, KGB outlet
Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "There is another critical legacy of the Soviet experiment with...
Antonov helps out Boeing in the extreme freezing conditions
Ukrainian AN-124 "Ruslan" made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Canadian Iqaluit with an engine for Boeing-777 which had to make an emergency landing...
Zhukov described to Eisenhower the Russian way to cross minefield in...
In his book of wartime memoirs Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower recollects his conversation with Marshal Zhukov, which shocked him: “During our hours on...
Ukrainian Dr. Kindzelsky saved Chornobyl Firefighters at Kyiv Hospital using his...
Not many people know that there was a second group of firefighters who were sent to Kyiv Hospital. It is extremely sad that the...
Odesa, the craddle of Israeli culture, enjoys a Jewish Rennaissance
The history of Odessa is also the history of Tel Aviv. Long before the State of Israel was founded, the Jewish community in...
Leonid Shavrey received the highest radiation dosage among all Chornobyl Firefighters....
Per Wikipedia page, Leonid M. Shavrey was a Firefighter from the nuclear power plant's fire station (ВПЧ-2). Leonid was among the first firemen to...
Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’
The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...
Ukraine to send rockets into space from Australia’s Kimberly?
"Rockets could be blasting into orbit from Derby within five years if the State and Federal governments get behind an ambitious proposal from the...
In August of 1937, Moscow demolished 12th-century St. Michael’s Cathedral in...
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...