The history of the war

What is important to know about the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine?

February is fixed in the modern history of Ukraine as a fateful time of change. For so it was in February, 2014, back when the lengthy peaceful protests of the Revolution of Dignity, which had begun in November 2013 as...

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...

The Fault of Russia: A Century of Deportations from Ukraine

Inspired by age-old imperial policy, endless territorial expansion and impunity, Russia’s rulers have been destroying and assimilating indigenous peoples of captured territories for centuries. One of the tools that Russia used and still uses against Ukrainians is deportation, which is...