August 1939. Shimmering heat in Central Europe. The grain is mowed. Holiday season. It might be carefree days, but there's something disturbing in the air. Some say a new war is imminent. The others swear the peace is safe. In this restless August, the world is watching the Obersalzberg. Adolf Hitler spends his summer here. From here he dares a risky game. Hauke Friederichs tells the story of...

The book talks about how Odessa residents ruined Putin’s long-term plans. It contains testimonies of people who, to varying degrees, determined the vector of resistance of Odessa residents to hybrid aggression. Their memories of the key events of the spring of 2014 allow us to feel the mood and atmosphere of what was happening.

Readers are presented with a fascinating story of the life and work of a major Russian statesman of the 19th century, general and diplomat Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev. He became famous for his successes in Central Asia, China and the Balkans. Bulgaria has always been in Ignatiev's heart, he was at the origins of the independence of modern Bulgaria, and Bulgaria still remembers and honors him.

They are a systematic presentation of the facts of the age-old confrontation between two borderline positions: the will on the part of our ancestors and modern Ukrainians, and slavery, which Russia has been the bearer of for more than one century in a row. The authors of the articles are significant people for modern Ukraine: doctor of legal sciences, professor Natalya Krestovska; writer,...

As the Americans say, freedom is not for free. So sooner or later the enemy, who for centuries pretended to be a ‘brother’ and a ‘liberator’, had to shed the blood of Ukrainians. And we will pay the ‘bill’. Therefore, this war became one of the phases of the formation of Ukraine, because you have to fight both with the occupier and with prejudices. She showed how much we still have to do and...

On February 24, 2022, the writer Andrii Kurkov did not write anything. And in the next few days too. An ethnic Russian who had spent his whole life in Kyiv faced the same danger as other Ukrainians. Because in his worldview, behavior and attitude to reality, the worldview and behavior of the Ukrainian Cossacks of the 16th century prevails, when Ukraine was not yet part of the Russian Empire,...

On February 24, 2022, Valery Zaluzhny, while giving orders, uttered the words that became a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance: ‘This country rests on our shoulders.’ An iron general, a legendary figure, Hero of Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2021–2024), a military leader who will be remembered by history as the man who thwarted the Russian ‘blitzkrieg’ plan and...