The history of the war

Without Ukraine, there would have been no victory. What exactly is Russia’s lie regarding World War II?

For the first time, the main hero of Victory Day is not Russia, but Ukraine. The attention of countries that truly honor this May holiday will be drawn to Ukrainians. A nation that once suffered grief because of the invasion...

When a day lasts a year. Reflecting on the Bucha massacre two years later

Russian soldiers entered Bucha, a city just outside of Kyiv, in the first days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One of the first viral photos from the war was of destroyed Russian equipment on Vokzalna Street. But a week...

Ukrainian Travelers of the Past: scientific discoveries and criticism of imperial Russia

Ukrainian travelers in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries were driven by a desire to explore the world, and they played an important role in the nation’s cultural, scientific, and social life. The world travelers visited remote corners of the...

The army of marauders: where Russian soldiers’ habit of looting comes from

Looting accompanies every war. However, the crimes of Russian soldiers stand out among the armed conflicts of the last decades for their impudence and greed.

A century of deportations. How Russia has been destroying nations

Russian occupiers commit a terrible crime by deporting Ukrainians. Since the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities and their accomplices (in particular, local collaborators) have been organizing mass deportations by forcibly transferring Ukrainians deep into the...

Russia’s Imperial Disease

Russia has been an empire for over 300 years. Formed during the reign of Peter I, it existed until 1917 and then transformed into the neo-empire known as the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union at the...

Erasing Ukrainian Collective Memory

For centuries, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were involved in an organized effort to “erase” the memory of Ukrainians as well as other oppressed peoples. With the erasure went the ideas of independence, knowledge of their own history,...

How Russia Russified the east of Ukraine

For centuries, Ukrainians have had their unique Ukrainian language and culture. These developed separately from Russian society, in a parallel tradition. However, when the Ukrainian territories were incorporated into the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union, the Russian authorities...