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Should Ukraine return to Crimea its historic name of Taurica?

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Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......

In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk

Ukrainian refugees grateful in deed

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Cleanliness as a noble trait in Ukrianians has been observed by many travellers - Edward Clark and John Steinbeck can be mentioned among many...

Sergei Korolev and Gagarin’s first human flight into space on April...

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Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history with a specialization in...

Anna Muzychuck, Ukrainian Chess Grandmaster, chose to lose her Two Titles...

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Anna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been...

First known Scorched Earth method took place in the area of...

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The Scorched earth Wikipedia page tells us that "the Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign....

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Moscow knew of Chornobyl Fourth Reactor flaws before the Test, –...

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Yuriy Shcherbak, a Ukrainian Doctor of Medicine and writer became known internationally because of his documentary novel about the Chornobyl tragedy. His "Chornobyl" which contains...

Ukrainian Donbas is frontline ‘battle lab’ where Russia prepares for war...

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"Along the 190-mile Line of Contact, the Russian-backed forces  have more than 470 tanks and hundreds of artillery pieces and rocket launchers. All are under...

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...

Largest open-air museum in Europe

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At the outskirt of Kyiv there is a unique Pyrohiv National Museum of Ukrainian Architecture & Culture which has examples of typical Ukrainian rural dwellings from...

Unique Kyiv Rus Jewellery Art of 1,000 AD: Created in Kyiv...

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L. V. Perars'ka, the Head of the Department of Medieval Kyiv at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, and Special Research Assistant in...

The US has earned more already off Russia-Ukraine war than what...

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Jan 24, 2025 - U.S. military equipment sales to foreign governments in 2024 surged 29% to a record $318.7 billion, the State Department said...

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...

Morowlin, not Muromets, was the true name of the famous bogatyr...

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In May of 1594, Erich Lassota von Steblau, a special envoy of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II to the Zaporozhian Cossacks arrived in Kyiv. The Holy...

5,500 years-old Yamnaya settlement in Ukraine sheds light on the origins...

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Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbor....

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...

Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’

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Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722 – 1794) was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a poet, a teacher, and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations...