Vyacheslav Darpinyants

Months ago information surfaced that one of Ukraine’s twenty-some specialized design bureaus is developing a modernized version of the Kalashnikov automatic rifle. This was confirmed on August 28. The new weapon’s designer, Director of the Precise Machine Building Research Center Oleksandr Seliukov...

“You must have heard at times the rumble of a distant waterfall... Isn’t it the same feeling that overwhelms you in the hurly-burly of a village fair?.. Outcries, curses, bleating, roaring — everything blends into continual irregular commotion... The whole crowd turns into one giant monster that is...

Historical tragedies never disappear and are never forgotten. The terrible interethnic conflict between Ukrainians and Poles in Volyn, which claimed tens of thousands of human lives in 1943-1944 on two warring sides, was hushed up in this country for decades: even in the already independent 1990s...