35 years of Zinnur Agliullin’s political hunger strike in Naberezhnye Chelny
On 2 August 2 1990, in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, Zinnur Agliullin declared the first political hunger strike in modern Tatar history. He demanded to grant the Tatar ASSR […]
Lithuania between the two wars. The First Lithuanian Republic
In 1918, on the ruins of World War I and the collapse of empires, Lithuania declared its independence. This period was the first time in the 20th century when Lithuanians […]
1983: The Resolution adopted unanimously by the members of Byelorussian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian communities
The Resolution adopted unanimously by the members of Byelorussian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian communities, residing in or near Bradford, at the Meeting marking the end of the Captive Nations Week commemoration, held on Sunday, 24th July 1983 in the Latvian Hall, 5 Clifton Villas, Bradford 8, West Yorkshire.
1982: Events in Estonia based on materials from the magazine “Vesti iz SSSR”
“On 17 September 1982, a demonstration of students from the University of Tartu took place in Tartu (Estonia). About 5,000 people took part. The demonstrators protested against the authorities’ refusal […]
35th anniversary of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine
On 16 July 1990, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, by a constitutional majority of people’s deputies – 355 votes “for” with four “against” and one abstention, adopted the […]
Ivan Honcharuk — the last executed UPA soldier. He was killed on 12 July 1989. For Ukraine
On July 12, 1989, during Gorbachev’s “Perestroika”, when the world had already begun speaking of the “democratization” of the USSR, the Soviet regime carried out a public execution of a Ukrainian insurgent — Ivan Honcharuk, a former UPA fighter from Volyn. This was the last politically motivated death sentence in the USSR — and it targeted a Ukrainian.
A memorial plaque in honour of the hero of the Belarusian people, Kastus Kalinovsky, was unveiled in Chernihiv
The First Hierarch of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (BAOC), Archbishop of Novogrudok and North America Sviatoslav (Login), in Chernihiv, as part of his visit to the Belarusian diaspora in […]
A unique photo from the “Chechen Photo Archive” – April 1995
In this unique photo from the “Chechen Photo Archive” – April 1995. The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is fighting for its independence. A delegation of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists […]
On 5 July, 1993, the Ural Republic was proclaimed
On 5 July 1993, the Ural Republic was proclaimed – this is a unique historical precedent, when an entire region of Russia, within the framework of the law and with […]
Why is Moscow afraid of the heroes of Ukraine, Chechnya and Georgia?
Historian Alik Homelsky, especially for I NEWS! The new video discusses how Russian media are trying to denigrate the heroes of the Ukrainian resistance, presenting them in a false light. […]
“Glory to the Central Rada!” How Voronezhchyna Supported the First Universal
The First Universal of the Ukrainian Central Rada was proclaimed on June 10 (23), 1917. It declared Ukraine’s autonomy within the Russian Republic and established the Ukrainian Central Rada as the representative body of the Ukrainian people. How was this news received in Voronezhchyna?