The lower house of the Dutch parliament has recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet authorities in 1944 as genocide
Earlier, representatives of the official authorities of Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Poland, Estonia and the Czech Republic recognised the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as an act of […]
“Since about the age of ten, I realized I was different”: a conversation with an East Slobozhanshchyna Cossack-Ukrainian from the Voronezh region
This story is about loss and preservation. About how generations of Ukrainians were systematically deprived of their memory, language, and even nationality in official documents. The interviewee is Mykola (name changed for safety reasons), an East Slobozhanshchyna Ukrainian Cossack. He was born and raised in the Novokhopyorsk district of Voronezh Oblast — a region where Ukrainian used to be spoken in families, but over time it was banned, ridiculed, and erased. Some details have been intentionally omitted for safety reasons.
Remembering John McCain
Let me remind you, my friends, that the first person to call for helping Ukraine with weapons was a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John McCain. It […]
Forest Brothers – anti-Soviet Guerilla War in the Baltics
The Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe wasn’t without defiance, but the strongest resistance took place in the Baltics. In this video, we will talk about the Forest Brothers and their […]
Yellow Klyn. Ukrainian Volga Region. The History of the Struggle for Freedom and Language
Yellow Klyn is a vast historical region of the Volga area, where Ukrainians gradually settled over several centuries. This territory encompasses Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, and Ulyanovsk regions, as well […]
From the Gulag to the Frontlines: Ukraine’s Long War for Freedom
In the summer of 1954, deep in the Kazakh steppe, the unthinkable happened. A group of Soviet Gulag prisoners, starved, beaten, and forgotten, rose up, expelled their guards, and governed […]
Malynovyi Klyn: Past, Present, and Future
This article offers a personal perspective from a Kuban Ukrainian on the history of the Malynovyi Klyn. Yet it is not only about the past. It is also a forward-looking reflection — through the lens of self-discovery, family history, and its connection to the story of the native land.
Exiled and Erased: Russia’s long history of colonizing Crimea
One of the darkest chapters in Crimean history unfolded in 1944, when the entire Crimean Tatar population was forcibly deported from their homeland to remote regions of Central Asia. This […]
The extradition of Cossacks in Lienz in 1945: tragedy, lessons, and memory
80 years ago, on 1 June 1945, an event occurred that went down in history as the “Extradition of the Cossacks at Lienz” (English: Repatriation of Cossacks after World War […]
Makivka 1915: The Battle That Forged a Nation
On May 4, 1915, the thunder of artillery and rifle fire faded across the slopes of Mount Makivka in the Carpathian Mountains. For six days, the mountain had been a […]
The Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic Legacy of the Ukrainian Resistance in the Far East
Ukrainian Roots in the Far East In the summer of 2020, the Russian Far East—often dismissed as a remote outpost in the vast geography of the Russian Federation—became the unlikely […]