Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks

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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...

Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks

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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....

Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers

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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...

Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine

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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...

Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus

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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...

Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article

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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...

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In 12th century the land is first mentioned as Ukraine. Russia...

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For the first time Ukraine was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle. Not Little Rus’ or something else, but Ukraine.  Nobody heard about Moscow and Russia at that...

Mezhyrich Mammoth Bone Hut is the most ancient human architecture known...

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In 1965 in central Ukraine, a farmer expanding his cellar dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth and other large bones. Further excavations...

Future ‘Russians’ attacked Germany in the ranks of the Golden Horde...

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In the year 1254, King of France Louis IX sent an emissary to Batu Khan, who had his camp at the Volga River. The...

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...

“The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian...

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"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an...

Cro-Magnon Couple from Crimea/Taurica c. 10,000 BC: Indigenous population of the...

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Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...

Russian soldier’s first-aid kit vs Ukrainian one

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Russian soldier's first-aid kit is above and a Ukrainian one below.

World Famous Ukrainians

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Celebreties Let us start with Wayne Gretzky's speech at "United for Ukraine" event - it has some information that may surprize you. Milla Jovovich who calls herself "a humble...

Putin suffers Crimea blowback with Orthodox church schizm – Financial Times

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When Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrated the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he claimed the disputed peninsula was “spiritually” inseparable from...

Siege of Sevastopol during Crimean War of 1854: Its fall made...

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The Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The...

Ukraine in Space

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Sergei Korolev -  the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...