There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the assertion that their separation into two countries is the result of some ...

It was the capital of Ukraine in the early Soviet period when the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was created. It was the heart of intellectual life. It was and remains on the front lines of ...

Russia already had at least 12,500 troops at Sevastopol, a Crimean port leased by Russia and also used by the Ukrainian navy ... part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) had its own government, parliament, academy of sciences, Ukrainian-language press and education, theatres, and museums. All of this was not granted by ...

In 1954 came the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by Khrushchev to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav. This treaty essentially marked the ...

In the Kyiv Post newsroom, Iurii Briceag – a soldier, intelligence officer and politician – calmly opens up a map to ... from the rear, Ukrainian forces are forced to keep some units stationed along ...

greatly expanding the size of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Declaring war on religion, Stalin’s commissars shut down churches, destroyed icons and dismantled the Bohorodchany Iconostasis.

The war in Ukraine looks set to escalate again. Sunday's deadly Russian rocket attack on the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine has made it more challenging than ever to find common ground ...