Genocidally Modified

Peoples that have experienced mass murders or deportations demand that guilty be brought to justice, but Ukraine continues to be shy in discussing whether or not the Holodomor was indeed genocide

Killing A People

Stanford University Professor Norman M. Naimark speaks about various interpretations of genocide and current court practice

Operation Fleet For Ukraine

An almost symbolic date was chosen to sign the “Kharkiv Treaties” in 2010 – 82 years earlier, on April 29, 1918, Ukraine's blue-and-yellow flags were hoisted for the first time ever by the Black Sea Fleet

The Price of Egoism

The states lying west of Russia could not avoid establishing a tight defense union but they failed to move beyond their own narrow national interests

Andrey Sheptytsky, Lion of Halychyna

Andrey Sheptytsky was the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan who was first met with distrust but later gained respect even from his enemies

A Different Peasantry

The last outbreak of the peasants' armed struggle for their personal and national rights in the territory of central and eastern Ukraine occurred in the early 1930s

The Holodomor As Genocide

The tragedy of Ukrainian peasants meets the West's criteria for genocide

Ukraine: "The Largest European Problem"

Thinking that Hitler was going to set up a puppet Ukrainian state in Transcarpathia and Galicia, the West did not support the formation of a new state - Carpathian Ruthenia

Russian Swastika

While stigmatizing the liberation movements in Lithuania, Estonia, and Ukraine for their “collaborationism,” the Kremlin turns a blind eye to the large number of former White Guards who joined the SS and Wehrmacht in the 1940s

Family Histories

Genealogy is becoming increasingly popular with Ukrainians, but the poorly-equipped archives prevent family history research from turning into a widespread practice

Learning Democracy

German historian Frank Golczewski talks about political technologies from the WWI era, how to build a new empire and the benefits of pluralism

Writing a Factual History of Ukraine

History has been turned into politics. It would seem that false history can be a foundation only for false politicians who dread nothing more than the principle “A clean goal requires clean hands”

Who Betrayed Ivan Mazepa?

Mazepa failed because of greedy Ukrainian Cossack officers and the clergy's obsession with self-importance

The Demise of Merchants

Did Ukrainian merchants in the Hetman state stand in anyone’s way?

Historical TV Series Mutilate Consciousness

Contrary to ephemeral statements by the Kremlin about “de-Stalinization,” the Russian propaganda machine is actively establishing historical myths first produced under Stalin