100 years of the Riga Pact: To the anniversary of the liquidation of “independent Ukraine”
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...