Ukraine became the territory of Kievan Rus (a powerful state in Europe) in 10th and 11th century. This led to the foundation for national identity of Ukrainians and the establishment of Kiev as the capital city of the newly formed country with Askold and Dir as its ruler. Over the years ...
According to Mediazona, Tushkanov was fired in 2021 from his job as a history teacher in a small town in the northern Urals for staging a one-man picket in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He had twice been fined for anti-war posts since Russia's full-scale invasion o...
Ukraine has a history of using civilian troops in battle. In 2014, volunteer brigades fought against Russia-backed separatists in the east, propping up the wavering conventional forces. Those units were formalized into Ukraine's military, as the Territorial Defense Force. Russia ha...
The memory of 1945 is now used as a unifying force, and a means to justify the country's current path of aggression. The authorities want people here to view the invasion of Ukraine in the same way as the Second World War - as an existential struggle aga...
Commenting on the nonexistent "invasion," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram that "February 15, 2022 will go down in history as the day of the failure of Western war propaganda. Humiliated and destroyed without firing a shot." ...
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
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AsUkraine continues to fight for its sovereignty, for the human rights of its citizens and to combat the ongoing Russian efforts todestroy the country’s cultural heritage, there engraved in its money is a crucial part of its national history. ...
The strategically important territory on the Black Sea has a long history, including the 1853-1856 Crimean War between Russia on one side, and Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire on the other. The area also held out against the Nazis in the Second World War and m...