Oleksandr Skrypnyk

As I studied the history of Ukrainian special services, my attention was involuntarily drawn to a striking likeness between what happened in Crimea and eastern Ukraine and the events that occurred almost a hundred years ago.The impression is that the Kremlin’s strategists and political...

After searching for and studying documents of this country’s historical and cultural heritage, the departmental archive of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) has just declassified materials that make it possible to open another, hitherto unknown, page about the 1932-1933 manmade famine in...

MATURATIONThe winter of 1713 was full of problems for a small detachment of the Zaporozhian Cossacks who, with Ivan Mazepa at the head, entered into an alliance with Swedish King Charles XII, were defeated by the Russian troops near Poltava, and found temporary shelter in Moldavian lands under the...