Previous Publications
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The cult of WWII veterans was created under Brezhnev to instill the official version of the war into people’s minds and mask the fact that the state had neglected them in the first decade following the war
15 May, 2013
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Mykola Borovyk
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To regain its status as a natural part of Europe, Ukraine needs to break free from Russian and Soviet colonial heritage
30 April, 2013
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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Ukrainian-European or the Soviet-Russian civilizational model will win out: with the former, Ukraine will quickly catch up with its Western neighbours. With the latter, it will likely cease to exist
30 April, 2013
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Ihor Losiev
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Why the Baltic States succeeded in defending their states in 1917-20 while Ukraine failed
12 April, 2013
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Andriy Rukkas
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Surges in maritime piracy were always a downside of economic growth, increasing trade and weakly structures societies
12 April, 2013
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Oleksiy Sokyrko
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How education became secular, universal and accessible to the public at large
31 March, 2013
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Volodymyr Masliychuk
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Battles for Ukraine went hand in hand with the irresponsible and merciless exploitation of the local population in the offensive operations of the Red Army
15 March, 2013
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Liudmyla Rybchenko
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Catastrophic floods during the last large-scale melting of glaciers shaped the contours of present-day Europe and created natural-climactic preconditions for the territory of modern Ukraine to become populated
15 March, 2013
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Leonid Zalizniak
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The Ukrainian press of the early 20th century survived only thanks to a handful of subscribers and funding from selfless donors
22 February, 2013
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Ihor Hyrych
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Since its inception, the press has performed an important social mission and undergone a long evolutionary process along the path to freedom of expression
22 February, 2013
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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For a large part of the Ukrainian population, Stalin’s “liberation from the Germans” was a mirror image of Hitler’s “liberation of Ukraine from the Bolsheviks” in 1941
8 February, 2013
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Vladyslav Hrynevych
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Philippe de Lara: “Totalitarian regimes are dead, but they continue to exert a strong influence on many countries and their cultures”
8 February, 2013
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Hanna Trehub
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From the viewpoint of contemporary European ethnology, the people who inhabited Southern Rus' in the 10th through the 13th century A.D. and were governed by the principalities of Kyiv, Pereiaslav and Halych had proto-Ukrainian ethnolinguistic traits
22 January, 2013
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Leonid Zalizniak
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The evolution of marriage from forced to voluntary, from church to civil, and from convenience to love
17 December, 2012
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Volodymyr Masliychuk
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The union between Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Tatars, signed in early 1648, was intended to secure significant military successes, but relationships between the parties were far from straitforward
10 December, 2012
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Yaroslav Stolitsky
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The formidable talent of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the helplessness of the Polish troops at the time led to an outstanding Cossack victory in the Battle of Batih
10 December, 2012
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Serhiy Drozd
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Some renowned Western intellectuals thought of the Famine as a justified step to the Soviet Union’s radiant future
26 November, 2012
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Bohdan Tsioupine
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At one time scattered between the Neman and Western Bug Rivers, the Yotvingians contributed to the development of several Eastern European nations
24 November, 2012
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Kostiantyn Rakhno
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The peaceful and military roles women played in the UPA
15 November, 2012
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Lesia Onyshko
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Despite its image as an entrenched military-political entity, the UPA included a number of intellectuals and talented artists who remain little known today
14 November, 2012
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Ivan Trokhymenko
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4 myths about UPA Fighters
13 November, 2012
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Ivan Patryliak
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The sovietization of Western Ukraine in 1939-41 was a triumph of Bolshevik barbarity over the more cultured “liberated” population
12 November, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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The creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) 20 years ago was as resolute a step as proclaiming the independence of the Ukrainian state
8 November, 2012
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Pavlo Podobied
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The absence of elementary living conditions and a regular supply system in the UPA was offset by active assistance from the local population
1 November, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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Monopolization, dictated by the imperial economic model, already hurt Ukraine back in the 19th century as clearly evidenced by sugar production, one of its most developed industries at that time
22 October, 2012
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Oleksiy Sokyrko
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The activity of communist parties in Europe was not only part of the Kremlin’s foreign policy tactics but also an additional polarising factor in European society
16 October, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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The culture of 'Muscovite Rus' came to form from two heterogeneous sources. The seed of the religious and artistic culture reached Muscovy from southeastern Europe (Byzantium, the Balkans) through Kyiv. On the other hand, the foundation of the political and legal culture came to Muscovy from 'Ulus Jöchi', better known as the Golden Horde. As a result, the Russian "spiritual culture" took the shape of a familiar European facade, behind which a non-European state infrastructure hid.
7 April, ,
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German chancellor Olaf Scholz says Putin’s comments on US biological weapons seemed like an ‘implicit threat’
23 March, ,
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It is us, Ukrainians, and all the citizens of this country, who must keep studying our own history. To defend our land and our country, we must know it better.
20 March, ,
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86.6% of Russians tolerate and support the potential assault on the territory of the European Union, including: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others as evidenced by the results of the sociological survey conducted by “Active Group”
18 March, ,
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