Sometimes clear water can flow from a muddy source. This rarely happens, but it does happen. And it also happens that you can learn the truth from a dubious source of information. In this case, I mean publications of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. As a rule, they are completely deceitful and disgustingly Russophobic. However, there are exceptions. The other day I had the opportunity to see...

Tomorrow the funeral of Leonid Kravchuk will take place in Kyiv. “It’s either good about the dead, or nothing but the truth,” the ancients said. The last part of this statement is often forgotten, but that's the point. One can hardly say much good about the recently deceased first president of Ukraine. But it would be wrong not to say anything. He played a role in history...

May 17 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Anatoly Dimarov, a famous Ukrainian writer, laureate of the highest Shevchenko Prize in Ukraine. He can hardly be called outstanding. More likely - mediocre (there are no comrades for his tastes and colors, but personally I did not see any special signs of talent in his works). However, he lived an interesting life, and his biography is instructive. Was born…

This story seems incredible. Even implausible. Yes, that's what she is! Although in Ukraine many are sure that it is undoubtedly true. Who knows the name Yuri Budyak today (real name – Pokos)? Perhaps only to narrow specialists in Ukrainian literature. Yes, once upon a time there lived such a writer who was not distinguished by literary talent. He also studied journalism (also without much success)…

I didn’t intend to write anything this year about the “heroes of Krut” (the date is not round), but today’s information noise on the air of the First Channel of the National Radio of Ukraine showed that I still need to write. This radio mentioned those events almost every 10 minutes in the morning, with the involvement of historians. Among other things, it was reported that...

January 22 is another holiday in Ukraine – Unity Day. It was established in honor of the solemn proclamation in 1919 of the so-called “Act of Zluki” (union) of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (WUNR). This seemed like a significant event took place in Kyiv. There was no shortage of festive events then. Declarations were read out. Speeches flowed like a river about the “centuries-old dream...

Kiev historian Alexander Karevin is one of the few in Ukraine who openly debunks the lies of anti-Russian state propaganda. His book “Non-Russian Rus'” is now in its fourth edition. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that anything from the new edition will reach the Ukrainian reader. “Non-Russian Rus'” has not yet been included in the list of prohibited ones, but it is not possible to transport it from Moscow across the border...

The lecture of the Kyiv historian and publicist Alexander Karevin, which he gave in Zaporozhye at the invitation of the local diocese of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, claims to be a real sensation in the conditions of modern Ukraine. “To be honest, I got the impression that most of those present had no idea what the lecture would be about. They probably thought that another “patriot” had come to them and would tell them about the “namelodiynisha...

In recent days, the public pages of professional “patriots of Ukraine” are full of the same picture - with the image of Hitler’s Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov with excerpts from statements allegedly belonging to these commanders. Rommel: “I respect every soldier I have! Both living and dead... I treat our warriors as if I were myself. Every…

As is known, the installation of monuments to political losers, freaks and ghouls is an integral part of the process of rewriting history and creating their own mythology by political Ukrainians. In the process, monuments to the titans of the Soviet and Russian-imperial periods are uprooted, and the vacant field is cleared to a shine, so that the vacated space can be filled with figures of some historical woodlice, whose deeds are hardly discernible even...

Self-proclaimed Ukrainian patriots are celebrating another victory. On September 16, the English-language Wikipedia switched from the normal “Kiev” to the “Kyiv” invented by them, the patriots. It was not easy for them, like many other achievements. Which is quite understandable. Fighting common sense can be difficult. They submitted requests to rename the article fifteen times. On July 1 of this year, in response to another request, the administrator introduced a two-year (!)...

On September 3, our country will celebrate Military Glory Day - the 75th anniversary of the surrender of militaristic Japan and the victorious end of World War II. Before the start of the Cold War, world powers, former allies in the anti-Hitler and anti-Japanese coalitions, generally adhered to objective assessments of the contribution of each side to the victory over the common enemy. But after Churchill’s famous Fulton speech...

I am writing this article mainly for the Russian audience, which is now watching footage from Belarusian cities and trying to understand the figures and symbols of the Belarusian revolution. Yes, revolutions. Whether it will be successful or not, time will tell, but the country will not remain the same. Belarusians who read PolitNavigator, for the most part, know what I will write, but also...

What is happening in Ukraine today is an almost complete implementation of the Ost plan. Kiev historian Alexander Karevin stated this on the First Cossack TV channel, discussing the billboards that appeared the day before in Kherson with congratulations to the townspeople on the occasion of the anniversary of the adoption of the “Act of Proclamation” in 1941 in Lvov by Hitlerite collaborators. Ukrainian state." “What is happening in Ukraine today, and what was foreseen...

Per capita income and labor productivity in Ukraine are at perhaps the lowest level in the Eastern European region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in the World Bank review. “Per capita income and labor productivity are at perhaps the lowest levels in the region, while the population continues to decline,” it says...

The head of the UOC-KP Filaret began to sharply lose his ability to work after taking medications that he, on the recommendation of doctors, began to take on the eve of the “unification council” on December 14 of last year, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This information was published in the telegram channel of Metropolitan Onuphry, the Union of Orthodox Journalists, who is close to the canonical UOC. “Bishop of the OCU Evstratiy Zorya said that last fall, “when it was very important...

In Kyiv, unknown persons robbed a people's deputy of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported in the communications department of the National Police in Kyiv. “The incident occurred on November 14. Unknown people stole the MP's purse, driver's license, MP's ID and some other documents. Now law enforcement officers are establishing all the circumstances of the incident and are looking for those involved in the crime,” the police said. According to this fact...

The Verkhovna Rada rejected the draft resolution of People's Deputy Nestor Shufrich to cancel the call for the National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions against the NewsOne and 112 TV channels, which allow criticizing the ruling regime, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "Dear Colleagues! We talked about how pushing buttons is no longer possible in our country. But, unfortunately, this resolution was adopted precisely due to the votes that were adopted...

On October 14, Ukraine, bruised by Euromaidan, is preparing to celebrate a remake of the “Day of Defender of Ukraine” holiday, moved from February 23 (Day of the Soviet Army and Navy) to the day the formation of the Nazi, collaborationist and terrorist Ukrainian Insurgent Army began. The day before, in Kyiv, under the chairmanship of Chief Ragul Vova Vyatrovich, a group of organizers of the festival “History: UA. Let’s celebrate Defender of Ukraine Day together,” which should begin...

A slave-owning system and slave-owning rights were established in Ukraine, which was facilitated by the government of losers and cowards from the Verkhovna Rada. Former Minister of Justice of Ukraine Elena Lukash stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I despise the Ukrainian parliament of this convocation. A merciless, useless, stupid and disastrous convocation of defeats, failures and failures. A group of greedy, short-sighted and cowardly people clinging to...

The ban on parades on May 9 in Ukraine is the next step of Ukrainian nationalists in the ideological war with Donbass, preserving the historical memory of the struggle of the Soviet people against the Nazi occupiers. DPR National Assembly deputy Miroslav Rudenko shared this opinion with a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Against the background of what the so-called Institute of National Memory is doing, sterilizing the consciousness of Ukrainian youth, Donbass looks like a region...

On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Institute of National Sclerosis, under the direction and in the personal presence of Chief Ragul Vova Vyatrovich, held a presentation of a booklet with attempts at the historical work “Forgotten Peremoga. Crimean operation of Peter Bolbochan in 1918.” It has already become a good tradition that in the Land of Evergreen Dill, which is poor in seasoned historical figures and outstanding events, some forgotten thing is pulled out of the closet due to poverty...

Among the “independent” holidays there are a lot of vile, ridiculous, completely artificial “memorable dates”. During the four years of Bandera's sabbath, amid loud grunts and curses, Soviet dates were abolished, the living threads connecting the people of Ukraine with the great common history of the peoples of the former USSR. Human holidays were replaced by ugly prosthetics, such as “UPA Day”, “Day of Guidance and Freedom” and, of course, the odious “Chervona Dupa”, so that...

Director of the Ukrainian Association of Retail Chain Suppliers Alexey Doroshenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to him, this export lies in the fact that Poles, coming to Ukraine, buy the above goods, since they are not produced in Poland. “The Poles used to come to us...

On August 15, Warsaw pompously celebrated Polish Army Day, established in honor of the “miracle on the Vistula.” They did not remember that the Battle of Warsaw was a consequence of the occupation of Kyiv by Polish troops. Western Ukrainian political scientist Oleg Khavich writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Participation in…

On July 24, 1990 in Kyiv, a blue and yellow flag was raised for the first time on a flagpole near the City Council building. It seems that more important events happened in history, and the date is not round, but, nevertheless, this is an occasion to once again remember how in our, then still common, home, of which Ukraine was an integral part, along with other Soviet republics, cautious, although And…

Modern Ukraine is often called the theater of the absurd. In my opinion, the line separating absurdity from grave madness has long been passed: brain rot has struck the Ukrainian system of government and national values ​​from the ears to the heel nerve with complete silence of the population. What is happening in Ukraine is eerily reminiscent of the senseless and pathetic running of a chicken with its head cut off. Losing blood and leaving it on the burrs...

On May 8, post-Maidan Ukraine will celebrate “Chervona Dupa” - a surrogate and loser “Victory Day, together with the European family of nations,” as “all civilized humanity.” Acting in the interests of the Banderaites who seized power, the Parashkin thieves compromised in the style of the wretched Baltic “sprats”: being unable to completely cancel Victory Day in a country where in the ranks of the Red Army and...

Due to the Ukrainian-Polish conflict that has flared up in recent days over the demolition of UPA monuments, it is worth recalling the history of Operation Vistula, thanks to which Warsaw eliminated the Bandera underground with decisive measures. On April 28, 1947, a large-scale military-police operation began in Poland to combat the UPA and undermine its social base. The fallen scumbags who raised their heads and multiplied during Hitler’s…

On February 25, on the territory of the Babi Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve, the mayor of Kyiv Klitschko unveiled a monument to the OUN collaborator and “poetess” Olena Teliga. The event was honored with a visit from the odious Minister of Culture Nishchuk, representatives of the city administration and the schismatic Filaret “clergy”. 8 million hryvnia, allegedly collected by the public of the city of Kyiv, were spent to perpetuate the memory of the Melnikovsky spill. Klitschko said that in the face of...

With the victory of the second Maidan, dazzling prospects opened up for the Ukrainian scumbags. Now they can not only legally swim behind buoys, cross the road at a red light, stand under an arrow and climb where it will kill, but for the second year now they can jump until they lose their pulse, screech cannibal chants and burn everything they can get their hands on every day birth and...

In 1906, in Austro-Hungarian Lemberg (also Lvov, populated by Poles and Jews), an article by professor-historian Mikhail Grushevsky “Ukrainian Piedmont” was published. In it, a native of Little Russia argued that the unification of Ukraine would come from Galicia as the most developed and free territory for the settlement of a divided people. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte And for excellence...

It seems to many that “unia” is some kind of call for some kind of “unity,” but in reality this is not the case. Uniateism arose as a result of very specific “European statesmen” (some of them were also priests of the pseudo-religious-political organization “Roman Catholic Church” formed after 1054) - to subordinate to their influence the peoples whom the Holy Gospel and the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church...

Every nation has writers who personified the most talented and brightest in the national character. And it is not at all accidental - often these are humorists and satirists. Those who are not afraid to show their fellow tribesmen at times funny and at times disgusting. Those who, lovingly, have the high gift of exposing the shortcomings of national character and existence, strive to cure them. Subscribe to news...

Galicia, a region that for centuries was outside the orbit of development of its half-brothers, has developed its own specific worldview, its own behavioral stereotypes, which sharply distinguish it from what we know about the Ukrainian national character from a school literature course. Documents from 1939-1944 will help you understand these differences. Soviet secret services. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook,...

The Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine became famous as one of the driving forces of “Euromaidan”; some of its pastors openly called for the slaughter and hanging of opponents of European integration. Most (if not all) parishioners of the UGCC are characterized by hatred of everything Russian. At the same time, they are proud of their national identity and the “centuries-old” (or even “multi-thousand-year”) history of the Ukrainian people. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" ...

Among the “Svidomites” there is a generally accepted idea of ​​the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a “kind grandmother” who looked after and cherished her Ukrainian pets. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte They say that in the “most liberal and democratic” monarchy of the then Europe, Ukrainians were literally carried in their arms. In its part, Galicia, “independence”, the very Uniate idea of ​​“Ukrainian Ukraine,” matured. Yes,…

It was scary to hear Bandera’s greeting “Glory to Ukraine!” during the Kyiv “Euromaidan!” - "Glory to heroes!" and see the Poles supporting it. Reason refused to accept: the Poles, who suffered so much from the OUN-UPA, contributed to the establishment of its ideology in Ukraine! But the huge portrait of Stepan Bandera above the entrance to the Kiev City Council was easily visible from Warsaw... Subscribe to the PolitNavigator - Kyiv news in...

Civil war has many faces. Here there is a confrontation between patriots and agents of other states, and a confrontation between generations, and a confrontation between peoples. But any turmoil contains a confrontation between statists and adventurers. The adventurers' victory prolongs the turmoil. A striking example of this is the fate of General Keller. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The death of General Keller on the night...

Modern Ukrainian historians and politicians are very fond of arguing that Russia colonized the lands of the current “Independence”, and its inhabitants were under the heavy oppression of the “Muscovites”. However, the facts tell a completely different story. In Russia at that time, serfdom existed and the situation of the peasants, who made up the bulk of the population, was difficult. However, such orders existed throughout the country and, undoubtedly, none...

This paraphrased sarcastic expression of Ilf and Petrov comes to mind every time Mikhail Grushevsky is mentioned. The official history of independent Ukraine portrays him as the “Zeus of national history” and the “founder of the Ukrainian state.” Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Meanwhile, his whole life was a series of betrayals by an opportunist who subordinated both scientific and political activities to one:...

What should be understood by the strange phrase “Ukrainian Ukraine” - is it “butter”, or something completely different? What forces are fighting for “UU”, what are their chances for “peremoga”? And why should the answer to both questions be sought in the history of Uniatism? Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Half of the Euromaidan participants are Greek Catholics, the apostolic boasted...

The leader of the neo-Nazi party VO "Svoboda" Oleg Tyagnybok is proud of his maternal origin from a family of Uniate priests, politicians and scientists Tsegelsky. The most famous of them, the brother of his great-grandfather Tyagnybok Longin, was one of the leaders of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (WUNR) and read out the act on the so-called on Sophia Square in Kyiv. "Zluka" January 22, 1919. It is his views that...

The numbers of victims of Nazi executions throughout Europe during the Second World War somehow do not reach our consciousness. It is not able to imagine one and a half million executed. Even a hundred thousand executed is difficult to imagine for anyone who has buried at least one person close to him. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte On the outskirts of Kyiv, in Babi Yar...

"Soldier. (...) We have a proverb: crests are no good, but they have a good voice. Mikhailo. No good? No, servant, your proverb is no longer suitable anywhere. Axis look at the capital, at one and at another, then look at the Senate, then throw at the ministers, then say - what suits our kudi, what...

It is impossible to understand the history of Ukraine at the beginning of the 1920th and beginning of the 1939st centuries without studying the history of Poland. Moreover, the history of Ukraine will be a mystery if you do not know the activities and personality of Józef Pilsudski, the creator of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (XNUMX-XNUMX). Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Ode to hatred Zyuk (as Jozef Pilsudski was called by his relatives) parents, as well as...

An attempt to legalize prostitution in Ukraine resulted in a statement by its initiator about the withdrawal of the relevant bill and a promise to seek tougher penalties for body trafficking and pimping. But the ice has broken: some important people managed to support the legalization initiative, and positive publications appeared in the media. Particularly attention-grabbing was an article in a Kiev magazine about prostitutes servicing Ukrainian soldiers in the military zone...

The ethnonym “Ukrainian” has its own birthday, officially recorded in government documents. This is December 17, 1926, the day of the first general census of the USSR. It was then that the entry “Ukrainian” appeared on the census form, which was registered in passports and settled in people’s heads for many decades. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Genealogy of one...

In 2014, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko approved by his decree the initiative of the director of the Institute of National Memory (or rather, unconsciousness) Vladimir Vyatrovich, a new official state holiday on October 14 - “Defender of the Fatherland Day.” Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The justification was “education” so-called. Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1942, the military wing of the OUN. Previously 14…

Right-wing radical ideologies (nationalism, fascism, clericalism) are inextricably linked with militarism, glorification of the army and war, and the practice of violence. Most right-wing radicals would gladly subscribe to the words of Reagan's Secretary of State A. Haig: “there are more important things than peace.” In their opinion, war is considered inevitable and even desirable. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte All countries,...

The hour is getting closer when the Ukrainian police will be completely replaced by the National Police. As Denis Gorbas, head of the legal support department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, stated at a briefing two months ago, this will happen by November. And the corresponding law has already been signed by Mr. Poroshenko, which was the reason for this briefing. I remember that when I was a police officer, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs paid a lot of attention to...

“On August 30, 1941, on the street of the city of Zhitomir, Bandera member Kuziy shot Omelyan Senik in the back and mortally wounded Mykola Sciborsky. Senik died immediately. Nikolai was still alive, but in a faint state. After the first shot at his brother-in-law, he turned around. And this extended his life, although not for long. It was half past seven. Both were taken to the First City Hospital. Sciborsky died...

On September 29, Nikolai Ostrovsky would have turned 111 years old... People in the 21st century know about him and his novel “How the Steel Was Tempered”, at best, only by hearsay. And in 1936, during his lifetime, the book’s circulation exceeded one and a half million copies; in libraries, in order to read it, people signed up for a waiting list. And the first edition of the novel is official...

At a time when decommunization is marching victoriously across Ukraine, and the country is boldly and fearlessly getting rid of the shameful totalitarian and occupation past, few patriots pay attention to the fact that real “zrada” accompanies every Ukrainian literally in his life. pocket. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Speech...

“The Great Patriotic War changed the life of Ukrainian writers: 109 masters of words fought at the front, in partisan detachments, some found themselves evacuated in Saratov, Ufa and other cities, 25 died a heroic death,” reports “Ukrainian Literature”, a textbook for 11th grade, which my son is studying today. – In Nazi-occupied Kyiv, the head of the Union of Writers of Ukraine Olena...

The forces that came to power in Ukraine in February 2014 think that they can get away with everything with impunity. Since 2004, ever since power was first illegally transferred from hand to hand, the orange forces, Ukrainian nationalists and the Western lovers who have joined them have been repeating: “The winners are not judged.” They judge the way they judge. Subscribe to…

Victor Pelevin, having written the novel “Chapaev and Emptiness,” demonized Kotovsky, as well as Chapaev, giving them the role of a dark, metaphysical evil genius of revolutionary obscurantism. And at the same time, Grigory Ivanovich’s contemporaries, especially those under his command, literally idolized Kotovsky. In the capital of the Autonomous Moldavian Republic, which, by the way, was either jokingly or seriously called...

One of the “architects” of the independence of the state, which had the best starting opportunities after the forced elimination of the USSR, for almost a quarter of a century after August 1991 did not understand anything, did not learn at least some lessons from his reign. The price of this rule, according to the French diplomat Talleyrand, is worse than a crime, it is a mistake. More precisely, a string of endless mistakes. Subscribe to…

For many days, lost in the ocean on a fragile boat, exhausted by a long journey, the sailors do not see land. The earth is the only hope for salvation and life. And then the lookout shouts: “Earth! Earth!". What rejoicing begins on the ship! Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte But as soon as it becomes clear that this is just a mirage, happiness gives way...

Several years ago, while collecting materials for my book “Overcoming. Confession of an eyewitness to events at the turn of two centuries,” I met on the Internet with the memories of those who remember Valentin Efimovich Malanchuk, a scientist, politician, party worker whose fate was then abruptly broken without the slightest hope for the future. Sparing lines of biography But first, a word from Lugansk political scientist, candidate of historical sciences Yuliy Fedorovsky: “His...