Geographical and historical treatment of Ukraine, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government. Ukraine is located in eastern Europe and is the second largest country on the continent after Russia. Its capital
History of Ukraine, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the present. From prehistoric times, migration and settlement patterns in the territories of present-day Ukraine varied fundamentally along th
Ukraine1990sinternational relationsCongress of Russian UkrainiansThe article considers the process of establishment of amicable relations between Russia and Ukraine in hard 1990s. Special attention is attached to international treaties and public initiatives, aimed at cooperation strengthening.Nikolay F. Bugay...
For Russia, Ukraine is of high strategic importance to its survival and sovereignty. World War II taught Russians an important lesson in this regard: When Nazi German troops occupied Ukraine, Moscow eventually lost access to the Black Sea and the Caucasus. Therefore, if Ukraine were to join NAT...
June 1942: A warship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet shelling German and Romanian positions near Sevastopol (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) But in 2014, Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in an illegal move that violated the territorial integrity of the former Soviet republic, and sparkeda war...
'The basics of defending the motherland' offers an alternate reality for pupils learning about the Ukraine war. Monday 2 September 2024 22:38, UK Russia This is a modal window. Video Unavailable Technical details : This video is currently unavailable ...
This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro...
A Resource for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine Last Updated: November 16, 2024 Read about The Jews of Khazaria - the best general-interest book about the Khazars in English Order the improved 3rd edition (February 2018) in hardcover format: The Jews of Khazaria from ...
Correspondent Mo Rocca asked, "When I was growing up, we called it 'The Ukraine.' Why did that change?" Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum, who has written extensively about Russia and Ukraine, said, "The Ukraine, the use of thatthe, I think, was a reflection of the fact ...
In this paper, national communism in Ukraine is discussed as the only possible legal opposition to the Soviet authority that arose from the contradiction between the interests of the centralized state (in the Soviet Union as a whole) and claims for national self-determination either in cultural, ...