(CN) — Ukrainians are at the heart of Russian history: They are the famed Cossacks and the noblest of Eastern Slavic families. Nikolai Gogol, author of “Dead Souls,” and Sergei Prokofiev, the ...

R ussia has gathered over 110,000 troops near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, CNN reported, quoting Ukrainian military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on Friday. Syrskyi said the region around Pokrovsk is now ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

To justify his designs on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to what Russians call the Kievan Rus. He sees this Orthodox medieval state which centred around the ...

According to Ukrainian Culture and Information Policy Minister Alexander Tkachenko, placing this structure on the museum’s land plot contradicts its designated use and violates the requirements of the ...

The national observance of the Baptism of Kievan Rus’, on 28 July, summarises the entire post-Soviet period. Starting with the universal unity of peoples and Churches, it has come full circle over ...

Natalia Zabolotna's primary job as director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal art museum in Kyiv was to oversee the pieces under her roof. But on July 25, the night before a visit by President Viktor ...