Previous Publications
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Most flaws of modern Ukrainian cities stem from the soviet construction boom of the 1950s-1970s
26 September, 2012
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Yaroslav Hyrych
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Federalization in the absence of a rule-of-law state degrades regions
21 September, 2012
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Ihor Losiev
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Having courageously chosen to be Ukrainian, representatives of national minorities essentially activated the Ukrainian national movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
19 September, 2012
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Ihor Hyrych
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Scattered across the vast Eurasian steppes, throughout their history, the Saka were inseparably linked with the population living north of the Black Sea
17 September, 2012
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Kostiantyn Rakhno
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Jerzy Nowosielski as a mediator in Polish-Ukrainian intercultural dialogue
7 September, 2012
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Lukasz Saturczak
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The Ukrainian Week offers a series of articles about technological inventions which have changed human history and induced civilizational progress and modernization of the economic, social and cultural landscape. This week’s story tells about trams, the first urban means of transport.
30 August, 2012
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Dmytro Kalynchuk
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Several operations against national minorities were carried out alongside class-based persecutions and purges among ranking party members in Ukraine
29 August, 2012
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Roman Podkur
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The Ukrainian Week presents Vasyl Lisoviy’s investigative memoirs about the repressive techniques used by the KGB against the activists of the 1960-1980s dissident movement in Ukraine.
1 August, 2012
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In July 1942, the soviet command shamefully retreated from Sevastopol, leaving its defenders to the mercy of fate
1 August, 2012
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Ihor Losiev
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On their long way from the North Caucasus to Africa, Alans laid the foundation of medieval military tradition in Europe and inspired British mythology
24 July, 2012
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Kostiantyn Rakhno
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Ukraine’s national flag, emblem and anthem have a long history and national status but have yet to become true national symbols
4 July, 2012
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Andriy Rukkas
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The Ukrainian government has implemented just one of all the “reforms” it declared two years ago – cultural policy in Ukraine has returned to the Russian-Soviet framework
3 July, 2012
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Vladyslav Hrynevych
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His earliest childhood memory is a long gloomy corridor in a barracks. Yaromyr Mykytko was born on 12 March 1953 in Prokopievsk, Kemerovo Region. When he was three, his family returned to Galicia but his parents kept their Siberia experience to themselves for a long time
3 July, 2012
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Oleksandr Syrtsov
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The Ukrainian Week interviewed eyewitnesses of the Second World War, and their stories are far removed from the idolised image of the “Great Patriotic War”
27 June, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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Oral history does not only wipe out the barriers between professional historians and simple people, but can also become a powerful instrument for desovietization
26 June, 2012
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Yuriy Voloshyn
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He formulated the idea of a political nation and advocated an aristocratic path toward building a Ukrainian state
18 June, 2012
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Ihor Hyrych
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‘Ukraine’, as a title, gained its political and geographical role in the 19th century
1 June, 2012
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Ihor Hyrych
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The Treaty of Rapallo between the Weimar Republic and Soviet Russia paved the way to a revival of German military power after the First World War
21 May, 2012
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Andriy Rukkas
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Jerzy Eisler talks about the role of history in contemporary Poland and the country's experience with de-sovietization
3 May, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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The aggravation of Russia–Latvia relations over history proves again that conflicts stemming from memories of WWII have not abated
3 May, 2012
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Oleksandr Kramar
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Varying interpretations of 20th century history prevent the movement to acknowledge Communist crimes from spreading throughout Europe
3 May, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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The omnipresent “managing and leading force” of soviet gender norms dominated relationships between men and women in the Soviet Union, leaving a heavy imprint on their development and evolution
18 April, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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In the early 21st century, the words Celts and Celtic became entrenched in the arsenal of pop culture as well as commercially successful for everything from beer and cigarettes to basketball teams
17 April, 2012
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Hennadiy Kazakevych
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90 years ago, when Ireland gained its independence from Great Britain, Ukraine lost its independence on the other side of Europe
17 April, 2012
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Hennadiy Kazakevych
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Ukraine’s Navy, set up 20 years ago, is struggling to survive
12 April, 2012
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Ihor Losiev
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A golden pectoral saved poet and archeologist Borys Mozolevsky from prison in Mordvia
12 April, 2012
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Volodymyr Panchenko
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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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