In November 1914, the Russian-Jewish writer Semyon Ansky traveled to Galicia to see how the war had changed the region. Ansky — the pen name of Shloyme-Zanvl...

The centenary of the Great War is upon us and so too are the innumerable events, publications and reminders of its significance.

When the editorial board of Novy Mir formally rejected the publication of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" in September 1956, they sent the author...

When the editorial board of "Novy Mir" formally rejected the publication of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" in September 1956, they sent the author...

The recent turmoil in Ukraine has led many Western analysts to accuse President Vladimir Putin of seeking to resurrect the "Soviet Empire." Indeed...

From mid-October, larger and larger crowds convened in Kiev. Worried about their size and their calls for change, the authorities declared martial...

On Jan. 22, 2010, then-President Viktor Yushchenko awarded Stepan Bandera the title "Hero of Ukraine." The decision met with official anger from the...

President Vladimir Putin may have declared in 2005 that the Soviet collapse was the "major geopolitical disaster of the century," but the Ukrainian...

In Kiev's center, next to the Pecherska Lavra and looming above the Dnieper river, stands a new monument dedicated to remembering the famine, or...

Taras Shevchenko's birthday was March 9, 1814 and this past Sunday, Ukrainians celebrated his bicentennial. In Kiev, Maidan activists laid a wreath...

If you tuned into NBC to watch the Olympic opening ceremony, you might have missed some important details about the spectacle. The early headlines...