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Sharp difference exists between Ukrainians and Russians, – Ivan Bunin, the...
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried...
Ukrainian Borscht inscribed on the UNESCO List on Intangible Cultural Heritage
"Ukrainian borscht - national version of borscht consumed in several countries of the region - is an integral part of Ukrainian family and community...
Lessons for modern-day ‘Chamberlains’ 85 years later
85 years ago, on 30.09.1938, Neville Chamberlain after negotiating with Adolf Hitler proudly proclaimed to have achieved Peace in Our Time. Part of that...
Ukrainian words in English Language
The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the link...
Kyiv King Yaroslav the Wise and the Wheel of Law/ Dharma...
In Buddhism, the Dharma Chakra is widely used to represent the Buddha's Dharma (Buddha's teaching and the universal moral order), Gautama Buddha himself, and...
Catherine II (‘the Great’) employed utmost artifice to keep secret the...
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "There is nothing in which the...
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John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm
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Vitaly Klitschko inducted in the Boxing Hall of Fame
"Klitschko was elected to the Hall of Fame in December, three years after he decided to re-enter politics in his native Ukraine. Also...
Shower ‘Javelin’
Ukrainians have put Javelin rocket case to good use. "Shower fire on Russians. Shower water on us."
William Kurelek & his Ukrainian Maze
Future "Christian mystic, bestselling author and illustrator", William Kurelek was the eldest of the seven children of Ukrainian emmigrant family in northern Alberta and Manitoba. Experience of his...
In 1999, Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova by...
OTD in 1999, the OSCE conference took place in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002....
George Kistiakowsky: Ukrainian who made Manhatten Project work and first Atomic...
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Napoleon about Russians: Asiatic Barbarians
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769 – 1834) was a French diplomat known primarily for his close relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. His 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte' is a...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women
“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the
Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine womanly figures. They
have...
Could Trypillian/Ukrainian ‘Yin-Yang’ be related to Megalithic stone circles in Britain?
From around 1933 to 1977, Professor of Engineering at Oxford Alexander Thom spent most of his weekends and holidays surveying megalithic sites in Britain....
European Scythians founded Persian and Bactrian empires, not vice versa
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Artemis/Diana was Scythian goddess originally. Ovid
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