Taras Chukhlib

Not so long ago, I visited the famous (currently ill-famed) historic fortress in Bendery, now part of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, which belongs to the State of Moldova. I was happy to make the trip with my colleagues, acknowledged historians Olena Bachynska, Serhii...

It is a long time ago that Ukraine lost Starodubshchyna (former Mhlyn, Novozybkiv, Starodub, and Suraz districts of Chernihiv gubernia), one of the greatest pearls of its North. These lands had been part of the basic Ukrainian ethnic area, but then, as a result of the defeat in the 1917-21...

Moscow recently hosted the international roundtable “The Battle of Poltava: Its Perception Centuries Later,” involving scholars from Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine. The roundtable was supported by Russia’s president and the Russian historical journal Rodina. The participants...

A monument to Tsar Peter I has stood quietly in Poltava for many years. Fine, let it stand there because it’s not doing anybody any harm — “it’s a monument,” to quote a popular Soviet comedy. But as the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava approaches, we are sure to see that even immobile...

Military intellectuals have finally become convinced at the turn of the third millennium that the most effective weapon to fight the enemy is so-called psychological and informational warfare. Yet, as the maxim goes, everything new is something old but forgotten. Various peoples and countries have...

The name of Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Left Bank Ukraine from 1687 to 1709, has passed into the annals of not only Ukrainian but world history for generations still to come. And while for some this name is a symbol of freedom and righteous rebellion, others still associate it with perfidy, treason,...

In 2001, Kyiv saw the unveiling of a monument to Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, a prominent Cossack hetman of the early seventeenth century, one of Ukraine’s most illustrious figures. Without doubt, this outstanding historical personage deserves to be commemorated in such a way more than any other...