empires were both good and bad. When they first gained power, they were good for their own people and bad for the people they took control of; but when the empires collapsed, they left legacies that unbalanced.
Ukrainian lands are located at the gates of Europe and since ancient times foes have been threatening its inhabitants, not all but most of the times from the East. However, the very first statehood was brought to Kyiv from the North, by means of rivers and Vikings, and over the 10thand ...