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Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist...
Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages (some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...
Scythian Farmers, Skoloti, Proto-Slavs, Rus-Ukraine
Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
Warrior in Chamber-Grave at Golden Gates in Kyiv: King Dir, ‘the...
The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...
Sword Hilts of Kyiv Rus: Ahead of Western Europe and Vikings...
"We have irrefutable evidence that at least the sword hilts were made in Rus cities. Regarding the peculiar hilts of the swords from...
Battle Axes of Kyiv Rus: Nearly perfect efficiency ahead of time
“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...
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Scythians, the Yamnaya Culture offspring
Dr. David W. Anthony: "... Mobile pastoral nomadism of a new militaristic type appeared in the Iron Age with the Scythians. But the Scythians...
Chornobyl firefighters at Kyiv clinic with their doctors
Yurii Shcherbak's first major literary work 'Chernobyl' was published in the USSR in 1986 already. Starting the following year, it was translated into many...
The first Scorched Earth policy was used by Scythians in the...
Scorched earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and...
In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
Valery Khodemchuk: the first victim of Chornobyl disaster and for whom...
Valery Khodemchuk was born on 24 March 1951 in the village of Kropyvnia which is almost exactly halfway between Kyiv and Chornobyl. With the...
Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites...
Per Wikipedia, Veche was a popular assembly during the Middle Ages. The veche is mentioned during the times of Kyiv Rus and it later became a powerful institution in Russian cities...
‘They Fought Each Other for Unity’ oxymoron: Moscow’s Attack on Novgorod...
Per Wikipedia, the Battle of Shelon was a battle between the forces of the Duchy of Moscow under Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the...
Spain seizes ancient Scythian gold jewellery stolen from Ukraine worth $64...
MADRID, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Spain has seized ancient gold artefacts valued at 60 million euros ($63.6 million) stolen from Ukraine after thieves were...
‘One of the most perfect Scythic tombs known’: Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan
In 1884, Polish archaeologist Godfryd Ossowski explored the great kurgan near the present-day city of Zvenigorodka, some 150km to the south of Kyiv. But...
Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it...
"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...
Hollywood star of Ukrainian descent Vera Farmiga joins campaign #ArmUkraineNow
She published her picture with the hashag at her Instagram page. Vera Farmiga is known for her roles in movies like Source Code with Jake...

















