News archive on the topic "UNR"

On November 14, 1918, an event occurred in Kyiv that became, in a sense, fatal for later independent Ukrainian historiography and political tradition. On this day, according to the new style, with the silent neutrality of Soviet Russia and the occupying German army stationed at that time under the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, the Directorate of the UPR, created by representatives of Ukrainophile socialist parties, began an uprising, within a few...

Ukraine must declare itself the legal heir of the UPR and change the dates of the beginning and end of the Second World War. Ruslan Koshulinsky, a former vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, a Lviv nationalist from the Svoboda organization, stated this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Koshulinsky, August 24, 1991 should be the end date of the “struggle for independence.” "If we are the heirs...

March 16 marks exactly one hundred years since the signing of the Riga Peace Treaty. This pact in 1921 summed up the results of the Soviet-Polish war and stopped the existence of “independent Ukraine” for seventy years. Five current Ukrainian regions - Lviv, Volyn, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Rivne - for more than eighteen years became part of the “Vskhodnykh Kresy”, the eastern outskirts of the Second Rech...

Another celebration of the so-called. The Day of Conciliarity gave rise to constant questions that no Ukrainian government can answer. Why are an insignificant historical fact and an unsuccessful, ridiculous, operetta attempt being glorified, cultivated, and exaggerated? Or rather, this event could have practical significance, showing what not to do and what ideology, what guides you should not contact under any circumstances...

Galicians remember how at one time the UPR betrayed the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, giving its lands to Poland, and in today's Ukraine they do not feel like masters, because in its central and eastern regions there are many “Soviet people who suddenly found themselves in Ukraine.” Lviv TV presenter Ostap Drozdov stated this on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Then we...

Today in the capital of Latvia there will be a grand opening of a memorial plaque in honor of the first diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which began its activities in Riga in January 1920, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated this at a joint briefing with the President of the Republic of Latvia Egils Levits, his press service reports. “I would especially like to note the significant ones for Ukrainians...

Svidomo’s endless rewriting of the history of Ukraine and the search for the origins of statehood has long degenerated into something like the never-ending game “Dumb and Dumber.” On October 19, the premiere of putting another leaky rubber on the globe of Ukraine took place under the auspices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A certain big-faced and bearded figure, served by the “head of the information reintegration sector of Crimea and Donbass” of the ministry, opened the presentation of a book with the pretentious title “U Vyri...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the revival of the self-proclaimed Ukrainian People's Republic, which existed for some time during the events of a hundred years ago, and called the Ukrainian language “driving.” He stated this on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the Ukrainian president, in recent years there has been a “rebirth of the Ukrainian state,” which disappeared a century ago. “We began to revive the Ukrainian state...

The initiative of the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Vladimir Vyatrovich to recognize the Soviet period of Ukrainian history as an “occupation” has every chance of practical implementation with unpleasant consequences for Ukraine, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The publication notes that Vyatrovich proposed to officially recognize the continuity of the modern Ukrainian state from the UPR, which existed mainly “on paper”...

Russia is trying to completely subjugate Ukraine, former head of the Maidan Self-Defense, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy said in an interview with the Ukrainian Week magazine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “You can analyze the Maidan from different angles. Someone says that the dollar was at 8, and now at 28, someone says that Ukraine had one territory...

Being in Kyiv several years ago, I was surprised to see a memorial plaque in honor of Comrade Artyom. It turned out that in the capital of Ukraine since Soviet times there has been a street named after this politician. I also thought: how did she survive the Yushchenko era? After all, Artyom’s personality must have caused real gnashing of teeth among the nationally concerned team of this president. Few…