Softline JSC has created software named "E-Map of Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933". This software was ordered by Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. The map has been introduced during the presentation of the National Book of Memory (with the participation of the President of Ukraine). The purpose of the system is to create software tools for formation, accumulation, storage and visualization of e-map data. This software provides the ability to visualize information...

The Russian government has distributed 2.9 million Russian passports to residents of the post-Soviet states, an action some view as interference in the affairs of these countries because there are few bilateral agreements on this and because Moscow has invoked the presence of its citizens there as a reason for Russian involvement. The Novy Region news agency this week, citing an article in “La Presse Canadienne,” said...

Голова Служби безпеки України Валентин Наливайченко виступає за неухильне видворення сепаратистів з території України у законний спосіб. На цьому Наливайченко наголосив сьогодні на прес-конференції в Києві. Говорячи про захист державності і територіальної цілісності України Наливайченко підкреслив, що це є головним пріоритетом у діяльності СБУ. "Нам важливо ті кримінальні справи...

14 квітня 1960 року облавники із КДБ оточили останню повстанську криївку на Підгаєччині (Тернопільська область), у якій переховувалися троє підпільників: Петро Пасічний-"Чорний" (1924 р. н.) — син Миколи родом із села Середнього Калуського району — провідник ОУН Підгаєччини; Марія Пальчак-"Стефа" (1922 р. н.) — медсестра і друкарка проводу ОУН, дружина "Чорного"; Олег Цетнарський-"Клим" (1924 р. н.) — охоронець провідника Пасічного-"Чорного"...

American Institute in Ukraine (AIU) Executive Director Anthony T. Salvia issued the following statement today, following the release of the Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Russia's report urging the Obama Administration to stop encouraging Ukraine and Georgia from pursuing membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): "The American Institute in Ukraine applauds the pragmatism found in the recent report...

A high-level bipartisan commission recommended Monday that the Obama administration reach out to Russia in a number of ways, putting NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine on hold and taking "a new look" at the planned missile shield in Eastern Europe, possibly even collaborating with Moscow on it. The recommendations came as the administration has said it wants to "reset" the critically important but strained relationship...

French defence minister Herve Morin on Tuesday (17 March) said any future NATO enlargement must take Russia into account, while a US high-level commission advised President Barack Obama to stop encouraging Georgia and Ukraine to join. Any expansion of NATO to include countries such as Georgia and Ukraine cannot happen without consultation with Russia, Mr Morin said in an interview for Associated Press, ahead of a parliamentary vote on France's return to the alliance's military structures...

A quarter century ago, a Ukrainian historian named Stanislav Kulchytsky was told by his Soviet overlords to concoct an insidious cover-up. His orders: to depict the famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s as unavoidable, like a natural disaster. Absolve the Communist Party of blame. Uphold the legacy of Stalin. Professor Kulchytsky, though, would not go along. The other day, as he stood before a new memorial to the victims of the famine, he recalled his decision as one turning point...

Russia is trying to exert pressure on the European Union to postpone for an indefinite term the conference on Ukraine's gas transport system modernization slated for March 23 in Brussels, a source close to the organizers of the conference told Interfax-Ukraine. "Russia has been trying to exert pressure on the EU to postpone the conference on Ukraine's gas transportation system modernization slated for March 23 in Brussels for an indefinite term," the source said. According to the agency's interlocutor...