Sviatoslav Lypovetsky

The relationships between Ukrainians and Jews have had many examples of both cooperation and misunderstandings, which left an imprint on people’s memory and have survived in our present views. Yet the history of the Jewish Battalion in the Ukrainian Galician Army (UGA) still remains unknown even...

The 80th anniversary of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), being marked one of these days, is unlikely to draw too much attention. What is being hotly debated in Ukraine is the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Amy), the OUN’s armed branch, Roman Shukhevych, who held various posts in the...

There are many dramatic and tragic events in the history of Ukrainian-Polish relations. The 1920s and 1930s were the tensest period in the uneasy relations between the Polish authorities and the Ukrainian nationalist movement. This period was closely linked with the Kuk family, specifically...

(Continued from the issue No. 26) “DAYS ARE PASSING” In 1921 a collection of Vasyl Vyshyvany’s poems called Mynaiut dni (Days Are Passing) was published in Vienna. These melancholy words reveal the situation of the representative of the Habsburg dynasty after the defeat of the Ukrainian...

The name of the Austrian crown prince, Wilhelm Habsburg, is little known in Ukraine. No one names streets and squares after him or unveils monuments or memorial plaques in his honor. Yet this heir to the ancient European dynasty of Habsburg-Lothringen deliberately resolved to champion the...