History: UKRAINE
Crimea:
Cossacks helped Russia get Crimea from Turkey 39:43
Donbas (East) 56:55
Crimea turned over to Ukraine 2:16:28
Russia 12:46 / 31:16
UKRAINE - THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2008) / A Jerzy Hoffman Film
1:34 Kyiv (401 - 500)
2:16 Byzantium (330–1453)
2:45 Princess Olga (890 - 969) adopted Christianity
3:28 Chersonesus in Crimea
4:06 Volodymyr the Great (958 - 1015)
4:29 Prince Yaroslav the Wise (978 - 1054)
4:39 Saint Sophia's Cathedral (1100)
5:31 Anna the Queen of France (1030 – 1075)
6:41 Volodymyr II Monomakh (1053-1125)
7:20 Yuri Dolgorukiy (1099 - 1157)
7:26 Moscow
7:37 The Mongols
10:16 The Principality of Galicia–Volhynia or Kingdom of Rus
10:49 Lviv
12:37 Ivan III of Russia (1440-1505)
12:46 The myth about Russia
13:07 Crimea
13:53 Roxolana (1502 – 1558)
15:20 serfdom (Polish oppression)
15:40 printing press
17:14 Zaporizhian Sich
18:33 Ukraine replaces the name Rus
18:40 cossack
20:15 Brest Union
20:18 The uniates
21:08 Hetman Sagaidachny (1570 - 1622)
23:05 Orthodoxy
23:28 Yarema Vyshnevetsky (1612 – 1651)
23:31 Catholicism
24:54 Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595 – 1657)
30:04 The Pereyaslav Council -------------------------------------------------1654
34:39 Ivan Mazepa (1639 - 1709)
37:06 The Battle of Poltava on 27 June 1709
40:11 Zaporizhian Sich (1552-1709)
40:27 Solovki
French Revolution--------------------------------------------------------------------- 1789
47:03 Dumy - historical ballads
48:18 Greek Catholic Church banned
48:49 Kyiv University (1833)
49:48 The Order of Basilian Fathers
50:55 Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861) (age 47)
54:57 Blue and yellow banner
55:45 The Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood
56:32 national liberation movement
56:55 Crimean War ----------------------------------------------------- 1853 to 1856
57:07 Alexander II (1818 - 1881) abolished serfdom
57:26 city of Donetsk (1868)
58:56 Green wedge
59:23 Volodymyr Antonovych (1834 - 1908)
59:28 Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841-1895 )
1:00:42 Lesya Ukrainka (1871 - 1913) (aged 42)
1:02:13 The Shevchenko Scientific Society (1873 )
1:11:03 Mykhailo Hrushevsky
1:03:27 Ivan Franko (1856 - 1916)
1:04:22 History of Ukraine-Ruthenia
1:04:49 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865 - 1944) 1:45:42
1:06:31 World War I------------------------------------------------------------------1914
1:07:32 Dmitro Dontsov (1883 - 1973)
1:07:57 (1914) Russian occupation
1:11:24 Symon Petliura
1:11:24 West Ukrainian People's Republic
1:19:27 Ukrainian Galician Army
1:23:30 Nestor Makhno
1:30:48 The Russian famine ----------------------------------------------------1921
1:41:21 Ukr National Democratic Alliance, (UNDO)
1:42:20 Ukr Sich Riflemen
1:42:43 (UVO) Ukr Military Organization
1:42:51 Yevhen Konovalets
1:43:10 Dmytro Dontsov
1:44:01 The Organization of Ukr Nationalists (OUN)
1:44:52 (1933) Stepan Bandera head of OUN
1:47:07 Avgustyn Voloshyn
1:47:33 Melnyk's and Bandera's
1:39:06 collectivization (1939)
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World War II ----------------------------------------------------------------(1939 - 1945)
1:51:24 The Nachtigall Battalion (Nightingale)
1:51:43 Independent Ukr State
1:44:50 Stepan Bandera (1909 – 1959) -----------------------------------1933
Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II
Wehrmacht Saves Innocent Civilians In Ukraine 1941
1:53:42 Babi Yar
1:55:40 partisan warfare
1:44:01 Organization of Ukr Nationalists (OUN)
1:57:42 Roman Shukhevych
1:58:37 Volyn
1:58:57 UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army
2:00:04 ethnic cleansing (1943)
2:02:32 SS Galicia Division
2:02:33 Banderavists (Bandera) split of OUN (former UVO) 1:47:26
2:02:25 Melnykovites (Melnyk)
2:02:57 SS Galicia crushed by the Red Army
2:04:51 Nikita Khrushchev
2:05:21 Joseph Stalin
1:39:56 RUSYN replaced the term Ukrainian
2:06:14 Gulag
2:06:31 Yalta
2:10:30 Operation Vistula (Polish: Akcja Wisła)
2:12:00 The Greek Catholic Church abolishment
2:12:21 Josyf Slipyj (1893 - 1984)
1:49:25 annexation of the Western Ukraine
2:16:33 turning Crimea over to Ukraine
2:18:25 Thaw (early 1950s to the early 1960s)
2:30:09 (April 26 1986) - Chornobyl disaster
2:35:30 Rukh - Movement
2:37:29 (1991) Declaration of Sovereignty of Ukraine
1:13:48 The Ukr People's Republic of 1918 - 1920
2:50:29 The Orange Revolution (2004)
Historia Ukrainy (z napisami i tłumaczeniem)
o Krymie:
39:43 Kozacy pomogli Rosji wygrać Krym z Turcji
56:55 Donbass 2:16:28 Krym zostaje przeniesiony na Ukrainę
o Rosji 12:46 / 31:16
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NARODZINY NARODU (2008) Jerzy Hoffman
1:34 Kijów (401-500)
2:16 Bizancjum (330-1453)
2:45 Księżniczka Olga (890 - 969) akceptuje chrześcijaństwo
3:28 Chersonese
4:06 Wołodymyr Wielki (958 - 1015)
4:29 Jarosław Mądry (978-1054)
4:39 Katedra Św. Zofii (1100)
5:31 Anna - królowa Francji (1030-1075)
18:41 Vladimir Monomakh (1053-1125)
7:20 Yu Dolgoruky (1099-1157)
7:26 Moskwa
7:37 Mongołowie
10:16 Księstwo Gal-Vol lub Królestwo Rosji
10:49 Lwów
Termin MALOROSCIA: początek XIV wieku
12:37 Iwan III Grozny (1440-1505)
12:46 Mit o Rosji
13:07 Krym
13:53 Roksolana (1502 - 1558)
15:20 Polskie pańszczyzna
17:14 Zaporizhzhya Sich
18:33 UKR zmienia nazwę RUS
18:40 Kozak
20:15 Brest Union
20:18 Unici - wschodni katolicy Kościoła
21:08 Hetman Sagaidachny (1570 - 1622)
23:05 Prawosławie
23:28 Jestem Vishnevetsky (1612 - 1651)
23:31 Katolicyzm
24:54 B Chmielnicki (1595 - 1657)
30:04 Perejasław Rada 1654
34:39 I Mazepa (1639 - 1709)
37:06 Bitwa pod Połtawą (1709)
40:11 Sycz w Zaporożu (1552-1709)
40:27 Solovki
- Rewolucja Franza (1789)
48:18 jest zabronione przez Kościół greckokatolicki
48:49 Uniwersytet Kijowski (1833)
50:55 T. Shevchenko (1814 - 1861) (47 lat)
54:57 niebiesko-żółta flaga
55:45 Bractwo Cyryla i Metodego
56:32 ruch wyzwolenia narodowego
56:55 Krymska wojna (1853-1856)
57:07 Aleksander II (1818 - 1881) znosi poddaństwo
57:26 Donieck (1868)
58:56 Zielony klin
59:23 W Antonowiczu (1834 - 1908)
59:28 M Drahomanov (1841-1895)
1:00:42 L Ukrainka (1871 - 1913) (42 lata)
1:02:13 NTSh (1873)
1:11:03 M Grushevsky
1:03:27 I Franco (1856 - 1916)
1:04:22 Historia Ukr-Rus
1:04:49 Metropolitan A Sheptytsky (1865 - 1944) świadomość narodowa na emigracji
1:06:31 Pierwsza wojna światowa z 1914 roku
1:07:32 Dontsov (1883 - 1973)
1:07:57 (1914) Rosyjska okupacja
1:11:24 Z Petliurą
1:11:24 Zah-ukr Nara Response ZUNR
1:19:27 Ukr Galicyjska Armia
1:30:48 Ros. głód (1921)
1:41:21 HOLODOMOR (1932-1933) 11 000 000 ofiar
1:45:55 (1937-1938) zostały wykonane aresztowania - Gułag
1:46:54 niszczenie ukr ident
1:49:11 Ukr Sojusz Narodów Demokratycznych (UNDO)
1:42:20 Strzelec Ukr Sich
1:50:49 (UFO) Ukr Army Org (Praga) Istnieją Konovalety
1:51:19 D Dontsov - ideolog z ukr. nacjonalizm
1:52:00 (młodzież) UWO jest członkiem -: Org Ukr Nat (OUN)
1:52:52 (w Polsce w 1933 r.) Wraz z Banderą zostaje szefem OUN
1:55:03 I Wołoszyn
1:55:27 Upadek Karpaty-Ukrainy dzieli OUN na dwie frakcje: Melnikovtsev i Banderivtsi 1:56:11
Druga wojna światowa (1939-1945)
1:59:17 ślady NKWD - Batalion Nachtigall (słowika-Bandera) 1:51:43 Niezależny Ukr. Państwo
1:44:50 Bandera (1909 - 1959)
1:53:42 Babin Yar
1:55:40 Wojna partyzancka
1:44:01 Organizacja nacjonalistów Ukr (OUN)
1:57:42 Roman Szuachewicz
1:58:37 Wołyń
1:58:57 UPA - Ukraińska Armia Powstańcza
2:00:04 czystki etniczne (1943)
2:02:32 SS Dywizja Galicyjska
1:39:56 RUSIN zmienia termin ukraiński
2:06:14 Gułag 2:06:31 Jałta
2:10:30 Operacja Wisła
2:12:00 Anulowanie Kościoła greckokatolickiego
1:49:25 aneksja Zach Ukr
2:16:33 Powrót Krymu na Ukrainę
2:18:25 Odwilż (1950-1960)
2:30:09 (26 kwietnia 1986) - Katastrofa w Czarnobylu
2:35:30 Ruch
2:37:29 (1991) Niezależność
2:50:29 Pomarańczowa rewolucja (2004)
Туристична Україна / Travel to Ukraine
Здравствуйте, хочу поделиться своей работой о достопримечательностях Украины.
Мне хотелось увидеть Украину - как она есть, а не через призму СМИ и запечатлеть это в timelapse видеоролике.
Маршрут съемок был следующим: Киев, Одесса, Белгород-Днестровский, Херсон, Железный Порт, Львов, Черновцы, Хотин, Каменец-Подольский, Бакота.
Во время поездки я получил массу впечатлений и завел много интересных знакомств. Я увидел красивую страну с уникальной и разнообразной природой, богатой историей и самобытной культурой, очень схожей с белорусской. Надеюсь после просмотра этого видео больше людей узнает об огромном туристическом потенциале Украины.
Отдельную благодарность за неоценимый вклад в создание видео ролика передаю Светлане Пасечник instagram.com/volkova_sveta19/
Больше видео и фото здесь
За все время было отснято 227 ракурсов (более 30 000 фотографий), из них отобраны 103 для видео. Стабилизация, цветовая обработка и монтаж производились в Adobe After Effects.
Hello, this video about Ukraine.
I would like to see Ukraine - as it is, and not through the prism of the media, and to capture it in timelapse video.
Filming route: Kiev, Odessa, Belgorod-Dniester, Kherson, Iron Port, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Hawtin, Kamenetz-Podolsk, Bakota.
During the trip, I got a lot of impressions and made many interesting contacts. I saw a beautiful country with a unique and diverse nature, rich history and unique culture is very similar to Belarus. I hope after watching this video more people will know about the huge tourism potential of Ukraine.
More videos and photos here
For all the time it was filmed 227 places (over 30 000 photos), of which 103 selected in video. Stabilization, color processing and video editing were made in Adobe After Effects.
Yan Mednis
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music - Olives - Dreamers Delight.
HISTORICAL PLACES OF UKRAINE IN GOOGLE EARTH PART TWO ( 2/6 )
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1. LUBART'S CASTLE,LUTSK 50°44'19.79N 25°19'24.01E
2. OBELISK OF GLORY,KERCH 45°21'1.78N 36°28'14.01E
3. KHARKOV CHORAL SYNAGOGUE 49°59'32.67N 36°14'5.59E
4. CATHEDRAL,UZHHOROD 48°36'50.79N 22°17'34.62E
5. LIADSKI GATE,KIEV 50°27'3.49N 30°31'22.62E
6. ASSUMPTION CATHEDRAL,KHARKIV 49°59'23.22N 36°13'50.27E
7. BASILICA,SEVASTOPOL 44°36'44.71N 33°29'24.98E
8. NAVITY CHURCH,KIEV 50°27'32.69N 30°31'30.63E
9. MONUMENT KAZARSKOMU,SEVASTOPOL 44°36'57.17N 33°31'26.85E
10. ST.ANDREW'S CHURCH,KIEV 50°27'32.37N 30°31'4.39E
11. TOWN COUNCIL,YALTA 44°29'53.48N 34°10'9.52E
12. GOLDEN GATE OF KIEV 50°26'55.61N 30°30'48.10E
13. GREEK CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL,UZHHOROD 48°37'23.08N 22°18'8.24E
14. MUSIC DRAMA THEATRE,CHERNIHIV 51°29'30.07N 31°17'59.18E
15. CATHEDRAL OF ALL SAINTS,SEBASTOPOL 44°36'6.73N 33°30'24.03E
16. OCTOBER PALACE,KIEV 50°26'59.10N 30°31'40.49E
17. JESUIT COLLEGIUM NOBILIUM,LVIV 49°50'30.32N 24° 1'44.51E
18. COLONNADE,ODESSA 46°29'26.58N 30°44'18.78E
19. CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS,SEVASTOPOL
44°38'10.93N 33°33'29.86E
20. THEATRE OF OPERA AND BALLET,ODESSA 46°29'7.73N 30°44'28.30E
21. LATIN CATHEDRAL,LVIV 49°50'27.17N 24° 1'49.05E
22. MOTHERLAND STATUE,KIEV 50°25'36.06N 30°33'46.27E
23. KAMIENIEC PODOLSKI CASTLE,KAMIANETS
48°40'24.26N 26°33'45.82E
24. PETER & PAUL CATHEDRAL,SEVASTOPOL 44°36'29.87N 33°31'32.99E
25. KHMELNYTSKY CITY COUNCIL 49°25'5.85N 26°58'45.57E
26. OLESKO CASTLE,BOSK 49°58'6.06N 24°54'2.39E
HISTORICAL PLACES OF UKRAINE IN GOOGLE EARTH PART SIX ( 6/6 )
1. VORONTSOV PALACE,ALUPKA 44°25'11.40N 34° 3'20.92E
2. BELL TOWER OF TRINITY MONBASTERY,CHERNIHIV
51°28'40.00N 31°16'45.02E
3. TOWER OF BUTCHERS,KHMEL'NYTS'KA 48°40'31.42N 26°34'36.24E
4. CASTLE AKKERMAN,ODESSA 46°12'5.91N 30°21'0.93E
5. HOLY RESURRECTION CATHEDRAL,RIVNE 50°37'9.19N 26°14'57.66E
6. IVANO-FRANKIVSK CITY HALL 48°55'22.49N 24°42'37.43E
7. GENOESE TOWER OF CONSTANTINE,FEODOSIYA
45° 1'42.76N 35°23'6.90E
8. ALEXANDER NEVSKY CHURCH, KHARKOV 49°59'20.27N 36°17'14.68E
9. ENTRANCE TO PARK,DNIPROPETROVS'K 48°27'38.10N 35° 4'10.47E
10. CHRIST-SERGIUS CHURCH,KHARKIV 50° 2'34.33N 36°13'23.46E
11. ZŁOCZÓW CASTLE,ZOLOCHIV 49°48'6.56N 24°54'23.22E
12. CITY HALL,MUKACHEVO 48°26'30.92N 22°43'4.31E
13. MONUMENT TARAS SHEVCHENKO,KIEV 50°26'30.28N 30°30'46.81E
14. ST.NICHOLAS CHURCH,DNEPROPETROVSK 48°28'0.44N 35° 4'21.73E
15. WOODEN CHURCH OF TRANSFIGURATION,KIEV 50°21'16.75N
16. CHURCH,LUTSK 50°46'6.20N 25°22'26.39E
17. WATER TOWERS,KIEV 50°27'9.43N 30°31'52.44E
18. RATUSHA TOWER&CITY HALL,LVIV 49°50'30.56N 24° 1'53.16E
19. MONUMENT OF ETERNAL GLORY,ZHITOMIR 50°14'36.88N 28°38'56.95E
20. ST.GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL,LVIV 49°50'18.86N 24° 0'47.30E
21. CHURCH,KIEV 50°22'50.03N 30°27'34.81E
22. DONETSK DRAMA THEATER,DONETSK 48° 0'7.32N 37°48'9.69E
23. MICHAEL FORT,SEVASTOPOL 44°37'40.14N 33°31'33.84E
24. ST.PANTELEIMON'S CATHEDRAL,KIEV 50°20'41.47N 30°29'15.82E
25. CHAPEL OF JOHN THE BAPTIST,DNIPROPETROVSK
48°28'16.45N 35° 2'58.42E
26. CHAPEL OF ST. ANDREW,KIEV 50°26'33.64N 30°33'10.43E
27. KREMENETS CASTLE,KREMENETS 50° 5'41.92N 25°43'50.90E
*** The CODATA Kyiv School- Oct. 3-4, 2008 ***
*** The CODATA Kyiv School- Oct. 3-4, 2008 ***
The masters:
Prof. Shuichi IWATA (Tokyo, Japan),
Prof. Krishna RAJAN (Ames, USA),
Prof. Sergey SIDORENKO (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The students: from Japan & Ukraine
The topic of the meeting focused on three areas: * data gathering (eg. techniques to acquire materials data...thermodynamic, crystallographic, computational:; * management of that data, especially cyberinfrastructure issues; and * analysis of data via informatics and statistical learning ..including applications to nanomaterials.
The format had both a tutorial flavor as well as presentations of recent research advances.
The video is about that Kyiv School BUT AFTER HOURS ...
Commemorating the Forced Deportation of Ukraine's Crimean Tatars 1/2
Full remarks commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Forced Deportation of Ukraine's Crimean Tatars, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, and book launch of This Blessed Land: Crimea and the Crimean Tatars by Paul Robert Magocsi, Toronto, Canada, 31 May 2014.
- Dr. Andrew Sterling
WOW air travel guide application - KYIV, Ukraine
A day in a Kyiv!
Hello. My name is Lena and this is video application for the WOW Air contest about one of the largest and oldest cities in Europe.
xxx
Enjoy!
Must see in Kyiv:
St. Sofia`s Square - one of the first areas in Kyiv and a favorite spot for photo shoots.
Zoloti Vorota (or Golden Gate) - the main gate of ancient Kiev, a memorial to the defensive architecture of Kievan Rus.
Saint Andrew’s Church on Andriyivskyi Descent
Vozdvyzenska Street (aka Karlovy Vary in Kyiv)
Poshtova Square near Dnipro river
Motherland monument and park of eternal glory
How to get there:
Subway|Metro, Uber, city bus or Carsharing (GetManCar).
Music: Go A - Веснянка. Electro-folk band from Kyiv.
Nicholas II of Russia | Wikipedia audio article
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Nicholas II of Russia
00:03:16 1 Family background
00:06:34 2 Tsarevich
00:09:51 3 Engagement, accession and marriage
00:13:43 4 Reign
00:13:52 4.1 Coronation
00:17:55 4.2 Initiatives in foreign affairs
00:18:52 4.3 Ecclesiastical affairs
00:19:40 4.4 Russo-Japanese War
00:22:47 4.5 Anti-Jewish pogroms of 1903–1906
00:23:48 4.6 Bloody Sunday (1905)
00:28:08 4.7 1905 Revolution
00:31:49 4.8 Relationship with the Duma
00:41:58 4.9 Tsarevich Alexei's illness and Rasputin
00:44:33 4.10 European affairs
00:46:48 4.11 Tercentenary
00:47:26 4.12 First World War
00:56:40 4.13 Collapse
01:01:25 4.13.1 Abdication (1917)
01:04:41 4.14 Imprisonment
01:08:10 4.15 Execution
01:11:32 5 Identification
01:13:22 6 Funeral
01:14:12 7 Sainthood
01:16:19 8 Assessment
01:19:54 9 Ancestry
01:20:03 10 Titles, styles, honours and arms
01:20:14 10.1 Titles and styles
01:21:29 10.2 Honours
01:22:12 10.2.1 National
01:22:39 10.2.2 Foreign
01:23:30 10.3 Arms
01:23:38 11 Children
01:23:47 12 Wealth
01:25:01 13 Documentaries and films
01:25:37 14 See also
01:25:53 15 Note
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Nicholas II or Nikolai II (Russian: Николай II Алекса́ндрович, tr. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 2 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody or Vile Nicholas by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the execution of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). Soviet historians portrayed Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.Russia was defeated in the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War which saw the annihilation of the reinforcing Russian Baltic Fleet after being sent on its round-the-world cruise at the naval Battle of Tsushima, off the coasts of Korea and Japan, the loss of Russian influence over Manchuria and Korea, and the Japanese annexation to the north of South Sakhalin Island. The Anglo-Russian Entente was designed to counter the German Empire's attempts to gain influence in the Middle East, but it also ended the Great Game of confrontation between Russia and the United Kingdom. When all Russian diplomatic efforts to prevent the First World War (1914–1918) failed, Nicholas approved the Imperial Russian Army mobilization on 30 July 1914 which gave Imperial Germany formal grounds to declare war on Russia on 1 August 1914. An estimated 3.3 million Russians were killed in the First World War. The Imperial Russian Army's severe losses, the High Command's incompetent management of the war efforts, and lack of food and supplies on the home front were all leading causes of the fall of the House of Romanov.
Following the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son and heir, the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich. He and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer 1917. On 30 April 1918, Nicholas, Alexandra, and their daughter Maria were handed over to the local Ural Soviet council in Ekaterinburg (renamed Sverdlovsk during the Soviet era); the rest of the captives followed on 23 May. Nicholas and his family were executed by their Bolshevik guards on the night of 16/17 July 1918. The remains of the imperial family were later found, exhumed, identified and re-interred with elaborate State and Church ceremony in St. Petersburg on 17 July 1998 – 80 years later.
In 1981, Nicholas, his wife, and their children were recognized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outsid ...
Timothy Snyder, Monday, March 9, 2015
Russia and Ukraine, War and History
Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
Among his many publications are several award-winning books, all of which have been translated into other languages. His recent book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010) examines the history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow and has won 12 cross-disciplinary awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. Bloodlands has been translated into more than thirty languages and was a bestseller in six countries.
Snyder is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals and he writes frequently for major publications around the world including Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and The New Republic.
He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and sits on the advisory councils of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and other organizations.
Professor Snyder's talk is sponsored by the Center of Human Rights and the Keck Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Euromaidan | Wikipedia audio article
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Euromaidan
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Euromaidan (; Ukrainian: Євромайдан, Russian: Евромайдан, Yevromaidan, literally Euro[pean] Square) was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kiev. The protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government's decision to suspend the signing of an association agreement with the European Union, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. The scope of the protests soon widened, with calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and his government. The protests were fueled by the perception of widespread government corruption, abuse of power and violation of human rights in Ukraine. Transparency International named President Yanukovych as the top example of corruption in the world. The situation escalated after the violent dispersal of protesters on 30 November, leading to many more protesters joining. The protests led to the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
During the Euromaidan, there were protests and clashes with police throughout Ukraine, especially at the Maidan in Kiev, which was occupied and barricaded by protesters, along with some administrative buildings, including Kiev City State Administration. On 8 December the crowd toppled Lenin statue nearby, police did not intrude. Protests and clashes increased in January, after the Ukrainian parliament passed a group of anti-protest laws. Protesters occupied government buildings in many regions of Ukraine. The protests climaxed in mid-February. Riot police advanced towards Maidan and clashed with protesters but did not fully occupy it. Police and activists fired live and rubber ammunition at multiple locations in Kyiv. There was fierce fighting in Kiev on February 18–20, in which 77 activists and 17 police officers were killed (see List of people killed during Euromaidan). Academic research suggests that many protesters were shot from locations controlled by Euromaidan. As a result of these events, Yanukovych was forced to make concessions to the opposition to end the bloodshed in Kiev and end the crisis. The Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine was signed by Vitaly Klitschko, Arseny Yatsenyuk, Oleh Tyahnybok. The signing was witnessed by the Foreign Ministers of Germany and Poland, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Radosław Sikorski, respectively, and the Director of the Continental Europe Department of the French Foreign Ministry, Eric Fournier. Vladimir Lukin, representing Russia, refused to sign the agreement.
The day the agreement was signed, the motorcade of Yanukovych was fired upon and shortly after that Yanukovych and other high government officials fled the country. Protesters gained control of the presidential administration and Yanukovych's private estate. Afterwards, the parliament removed Yanukovych from office, replaced the government with Oleksandr Turchynov, and ordered that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko be released from prison. Events in Kyiv were soon followed by the Crimean crisis and pro-Russian unrest in Eastern Ukraine. Despite the ousting of Yanukovych, the installation of a new government, and the adoption of the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement's political provisions, the protests have sustained pressure on the government to reject Russian influence in Ukraine.
The Way to Ukraine (Путь в Украину)
A film by Sarah Hurst about Russians who are claiming asylum in Ukraine because of their opposition to Putin, which has led to some being prosecuted and even imprisoned.
Russian politician Zhirinovsky speaks about revolutions in Russia (English subs)
FOR SUBTITLES TURN CAPTIONS (CC) ON.
This video consists of 2 parts, because on that day Zhirinovsky spoke 2 times for some reason. The main subject is revolutions in Russia. He expresses his opinion on revolutionaries, their real goals and causes of their actions.
In the first part, he talks about Ukranization of Russian population in Ukrain, that was going on since 1918.
In second part, he concentrates more on definition of a hero of the Soviet Union.
Speech in Duma on: 16/04/2014.
Personal opinion:
From all this, and different other events and facts, I'm thinking that all this have roots far far away in the past. I didn't started this winter, but rather in the and of 19-th beginning of 20-th century. One thing I can say for sure, it is no surprise. It was all building up to this for decades.
Abbreviations:
MID - Main Intelligence Directorate
CPRF -- Communist Party of Russian Federation
CPSU - Communist Party of Soviet Union
APC - Armoured personnel carrier
SCSE - State Committee on the State of Emergency
As always, FOR TROLLS, so they won't feel left out: Go to hell, I hate you all :)