How did we end up on February 24, 2022? How did this even become possible? The Russian historical narrative is built on myths: about the unity of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, about certain ancestral Russian territories, about the traitor Mazepa and the terrible Banderaites and about the greatness of the beautiful invincible empire. These myths were formed and supported by Russian...

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.

In the eleventh month of the war, Donetsk region remains the hottest spot, battles for Bakhmut continue. But the occupiers are ready to launch an offensive in any direction in order to achieve at least some success at the front. In response to terrorist attacks by Russian drones and missiles on peaceful towns and villages, Ukrainians struck military airfields on the territory of the aggressor...

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,...

The successes of conservative populism are usually associated with the triumph of affects over rational political behavior: after all, only an unenlightened individual subject to irrational fears can doubt that the modern world is developing in the right direction. Unexpectedly, the passive conservatism of moderation and reasonable compromise gave way to the pressure of the conservatism of...

This book includes memories of Odessa during the occupation, extracted from the Bakhmetev archive of Columbia University (New York) and emigre publications.

Rasputin - a simple monk from Siberia or the devil? The scandal surrounding him and the Tsar's family only further undermined the final years of Imperial Russia.

'It turns out that houses from the gases of the blast wave change color: this is how a person's face changes from shock.' The diary of the Russian poet and translator Vera Mikhailovna Inber tells about the hard days of the war in the period from 1941 to 1944 and fully conveys the tragedy of besieged Leningrad. Sagging legs are from fear when a bomb explodes nearby. Laughter and tears are from...