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

The evolution of Ukrainian elite and its state-building concepts offers a valuable lesson to the country today

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

The rationale behind transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954

The Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Karaites, Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Ukrainians, Russians, Romani – these are just the most prominent of the ethnic groups that populated the peninsula over the last 150 years

Ukrainian sociopolitical movement between the mid-19th and early 20th century seemed to involve only “conscious Ukrainians”. Even then, however, forces existed which had not yet actively declared their pro-Ukrainian nature but had huge sociopolitical potential

The dawn of Indo-Europeans on the Ukrainian steppes

On July 14 Poland’s President Bronisław Komorowski visited Ukraine for a memorial service for the victims of the Volyn tragedy in 1943-44. He was joined by Ukraine’s Vice Premier Kostiantyn Hryshchenko.

By mastering new ways of procuring food, ancient people were freed from the dependence on natural factors, causing their numbers to grow exponentially

Ukraine must have its own national history, not one dictated by Moscow. And the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is one of its elements.

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

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

At one time scattered between the Neman and Western Bug Rivers, the Yotvingians contributed to the development of several Eastern European nations

Andreas Kappeler talks about why Ukraine is still a blank space on Western Europe’s mental map

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

Having courageously chosen to be Ukrainian, representatives of national minorities essentially activated the Ukrainian national movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Scattered across the vast Eurasian steppes, throughout their history, the Saka were inseparably linked with the population living north of the Black Sea

Having saved 150 Jews during the war, Andrey Sheptytskiy, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (uniate church), deserves the Israeli title of “Righteous Gentile”

On their long way from the North Caucasus to Africa, Alans laid the foundation of medieval military tradition in Europe and inspired British mythology

Ukraine’s national flag, emblem and anthem have a long history and national status but have yet to become true national symbols

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”

Oral history does not only wipe out the barriers between professional historians and simple people, but can also become a powerful instrument for desovietization

He formulated the idea of a political nation and advocated an aristocratic path toward building a Ukrainian state

‘Ukraine’, as a title, gained its political and geographical role in the 19th century

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

Despite their short sojourn in Ukrainian territory, Gothic tribes made a large contribution to the culture of ancient Ukraine

Who has the right to claim Gothic heritage in 20th-century? This becomes part of an ideological struggle in Ukraine

In March 1917 a wave of national revival surged over Dnieper Ukraine, only to be wasted later by the Central Rada

How Russian Army units were made Ukrainian

In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians were killed and russified in Eastern Slobozhanshchyna* and the North Caucasus

1942 saw the beginning of the mass deportation of people from Ukraine for forced labor in the Third Reich

Historical memory invented by Russia – from books to films in which facts do not always match the reality – is being imposed on Ukrainian society

Defying prohibition, Ukrainian political prisoners celebrated Christmas in Polish, Nazi and Soviet prisons and camps

How Homo Sovieticus was created

The Bolshevik execution of 359 fighters who participated in the UNR’s Second Winter Campaign immortalized the area which is now quietly dying

On November 21, 1921, the Bolsheviks stopped the Second Winter Campaign of the UNR army which was meant to launch a united struggle against the Soviets

Scandinavian anthropologist and sociologist Hans-Jørgen Wallin Weihe talks about historical traumas, college independence and existential challenges

The Bolsheviks successfully utilized feuds, fear and servility among intellectuals to tighten their totalitarian regime and eliminate opponents like Serhiy Yefremov

After luring UNR General Yuriy Tiutiunnyk to the USSR, the Bolsheviks used his knowledge and connections and later shot him as “spent material”

The failure of Ukrainian elites to agree among themselves for the sake of independence in the 14th and 15th centuries led to the breakup of the Rus’ principality and incorporation of its parts into Poland, Lithuania and Hungary

A mass grave of what appear to be victims of the NKVD killed in 1939-41 has been discovered in Volodymyr-Volynsky

An unrealized project of Ukrainian conservatism

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.

Ivan Franko and his vision of the 20th century

Most of Galicia’s men ended up in the UK after the Second World War. There is just a handful of real participants and eyewitnesses surviving who could answer the hard questions. Their lives are a lesson to be learned from history

Prominent French academic Daniel Beauvois talks about quasi-patriotism, national heroes, distorted myths and the status of historical science in Ukraine

Raymond Clarinard: “To many French intellectuals, the Petliura case does not exist. They have never known in France what to do with Ukraine”

Valerii Marchenko chose death over submitting to evil

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 twisted vision of Ukrane can turn out fatal to European security

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

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

On March 1, 1991, Donetsk miners started a general strike, a deliberate step to break up the soviet empire. Unfortunately, the national democratic movement failed to follow suit

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

Oleksandr Feldman, a dyed-in-the-wool fighter against Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism and the sponsor of a bill he introduced while still a BYuT member and which reflects this crusade, has reached new political heights

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”

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

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

Whether cities of Ukraine become more Ukrainian has a direct impact on what Ukraine itself will be like