“A lot of really important history that Putin and Russian nationalists see as their ancestry happened in Ukraine,” says Stephen Brain, an associate professor at Mississippi State University, who specializes in
In Ukraine and Poland, over 100,000 Jews were murdered between 1918 and 1921. Jews were seen as causing the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, resulting in ordinary people killing their Jewish neighbours without impunity. Today these pogroms have been mostly forgotten, despite dominating headlines ...
Rurik (also spelled Riurik) was a Varangian chieftain who arrived in the Ladoga region in modern-day Russia in 862. He built the Holmgard settlement = near Novgorod in the 860s and founded the first significant dynasty in Russian history called the Rurik Dynasty. Rurik and his heirs also es...
This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest "infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations" (History). In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and th...
Describe the attacks by th Mongols on the Russian principality Key Points The major principalities of Kievan Rus’ became increasingly fractured and independent after the death of Yaroslav the Wise in 1054. The first Mongol attempt to capture Kievan territories occurred in 1223 at the Battle of ...
The largest settlement that has been discovered from the First Scythian Kingdom period is located on the banks of the Vorskla River, which runs through Russia and northeastern Ukraine. Some scholars have suggested that this settlement, named Bilsk, may have been the site of Gelonus, the capital...
However, with the rise of the Russian imperialism in 2008 (Georgia war) and especially 2014 and 2022 (Ukraine war), Lithuanian last remaining economic and cultural ties with Russia disintegrated. The post-independence economic growth has been sweeping but the Soviet occupation left Lithuania decades...
Country Briefs: Welcome to Moldova, a picturesque country that spreads in an area of 33,843 square kilometers with population above three million.Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe that lies between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east and is famous for its green hills,...
Sevastopol, city and seaport, Crimea, southern Ukraine, in the southwestern Crimean Peninsula on the southern shore of the long, narrow Akhtiarska Bay, which forms a magnificent natural harbour. West of the modern town stood the ancient Greek colony of C
Feodosiya, city, southern Ukraine. It lies on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula on the western shores of Feodosiya Bay. The city is located on the site of the ancient colony Theodosia, the native name of which was Ardabda. Terra-cottas show it