The crimes and execution of Pavlo Matsapura’s gang that inspired an 18th-century word for villain

How the myth that Ukrainians are inclined towards lawlessness is used against them and why a sense of responsibility to your own people is so important

What shaped the aristocratic tradition in politics between the Cossack period and the liberation struggle in 1917-1920

Most of the crimes against Ukrainians have been at the hands of other Ukrainians. What’s important now is to understand how this phenomenon of the Malorosians or Little Russians happened

That turbulent period taught Ukrainians that the ideals of national freedom and solidarity must not be squandered on attractive slogans about social equality, “land and freedom” or “land to peasants”

Château de Dinteville preserves the memories of Cossack Hetman Pylyp Orlyk, and his son Hryhir, a French diplomat and a tireless promoter of independence for the Cossack nation

The Battle of Vienna took place 330 years ago. It was the final and most significant battle between Christian Europe and the Muslim East

Becoming Ukrainian was as difficult and controversial for Pavlo Skoropadskyi as it was for the Ukrainian nation

Accomplishments and failures of the 1918 Pavlo Skoropadskyi reforms

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

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

Ukraine’s Navy, set up 20 years ago, is struggling to survive

In the outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk, one can still find the remains of a fortress built by Ivan Mazepa at the site of an older Cossack village.

Ukrainian cossacks have turned into a thieving band of generals in fancy dress

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