Video debates
Catalog of Vitaliy Drybnytsya's video debates, used as sources for articles
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On fascism, the Wehrmacht and Katyn: who really shot the Polish officers (14.09.2026)
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"You're Asking? We Answer Everyone!" — a street debate on many topics (19.07.2026)
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"You Get the Answers You Ask For" — a debate about pre-Mongol Rus' (18.07.2026)
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A War of Civilizations? Right! (14.07.2026)
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"The Russian Philosopher on the March" (13.07.2026)
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Nice people and interesting questions: how the revolution was financed (12.07.2026)
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The Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: how Ukraine ended up in the USSR (09.07.2026)
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Oh, these concepts! On the scheme of Russian history and Soviet WWII historiography (06.07.2026)
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The Vyatichi and the Rest of Zalissia (05.07.2025)
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On the Earliest Civilizations (with a Prologue and Epilogue) (04.07.2026)
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With a Lithuanian About the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Union of Lublin (02.07.2025)
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"From the Serious to the Ridiculous Is One Step" — Meetings with Subscribers (30.06.2026)
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Promoting History and Historians (28.06.2026)
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How nice it is to talk with your own people: Petliura the state-builder (24.06.2026)
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"Pakh-pakh-pakh": A Dispute with a Russian from Novosibirsk on Nuremberg and Crimea (20.06.2026)
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From history to politics: the 1937 census, Rus', and Ukrainians in the U.S. diaspora (16.06.2026)
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Bandera, Stalin, Hitler: why Bandera is called a 'fascist' and who actually liberated Prague (30.05.2026)
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'I don't know the dates but I have an opinion': the 'For the Return of Crimea' medal dated 20 Feb 2014 (23.04.2026)
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Did a Muscovite state exist? (the "History of Russia" series, 28.03.2026)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. Prosvita, not an Austrian general staff: how Ukrainian cadres were forged (13.12.2025)
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On Ukrainian Nationalism, for the Ukrainian Community in Italy and for Italians (06.12.2025)
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Hitler and Stalin's Alliance — Accident or Logic: interview for 'Orestocracy' (05.12.2025)
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The Formation of Ukrainian Statehood: Lecture for the National Resistance Center (25 October 2025)
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Kitsoft: Vitaliy Dribnytsya on the most widespread Russian historical myths (04.10.2025)
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The «История России» series. Video No. 4. East Slavs, the formation of Rus' (14.09.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 7: 'Rus'' as an ethnonym, the treaties of 911/944 (30.08.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 6: the spread of the ethnonym 'Rus'' (23.08.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Roman Ofitsynskyi. Avhustyn Voloshyn: Christian, educator, statesman (16.08.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 5: completion of the formation of Rus' identity (09.08.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 4: land-based self-awareness, 12th–13th centuries (02.08.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 3: "local" self-awareness (26.07.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 2: tribes and archaeological cultures (19.07.2025)
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Pre-modern identity No. 1: characteristics of pre-modern ethnicity (12.07.2025)
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The "History of Russia" series. Video No. 2. Chapters 1–2 (05.07.2025)
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Dismantling Russian Narratives: Commentary for ICTV (04.07.2025)
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Historian every Saturday: Vasyl Pavlov. Dogs of War or Doves of Peace: military history in wartime (21.06.2025)
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The "History of Russia" series. Video No. 1. Introduction (14.06.2025)
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Kuban Woman = Armenian Woman? Commentary for ICTV (09.06.2025)
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A Short History of Ukraine 1657–1921, part 2: the dynasty failed, the hetmanate became elective (28.05.2025)
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ICTV Commentary (27 May 2025)
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A Short History of Ukraine 1648–1657, part 1: the dynastic plans of Khmelnytsky (26.05.2025)
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Medinsky's Delusions and More — an ICTV Commentary (23 May 2025)
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Busting the myths of Soviet propaganda and recalling Versailles (11.05.2025)
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Ten Questions from the Blogger Black Vata (10.05.2025)
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Inter: Vitaliy Dribnytsya on the teaching of the Second World War in textbooks (09.05.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Oleksandr Gogun. What the Red Army brought to Europe (03.05.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. He knew how to defeat Russia: what you should know about Yuriy Lypa (19.04.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Vitaliy Myhailovsky. 'Poland fell — and crushed you too!' The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century (05.04.2025)
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A Dialogue-Lecture on Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Their Theories (29.03.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. Borys Hrinchenko — creator of the 'passport' of the Ukrainian nation (15.03.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Svitlana Vizer. The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church Between Rome and Constantinople (08.03.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Lyudmyla Turchyna. Mykola Khvylovy in the Context of His Era (01.03.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Andriy Grechylo. Ukrainophobia and Its Symbols (22.02.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: V. Myhailovsky. The Ukrainian Lands from the Second Half of the 14th to the First Half of the 16th Century (15.02.2025)
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Saturday Historian: Arsen Zinchenko. Vasyl Lypkivskyi and the UAOC (08.02.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Raikivsky. The Features of the Formation of the Modern Ukrainian Nation in the 19th Century (01.02.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Iryna Petrenko. Women of Ukraine in the Whirl of Modernization (18.01.2025)
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Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. The Cossacks: What's Not in the Textbooks (11.01.2025)
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On Pylyp Orlyk's Constitution (06.01.2025)
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'Ukrainian' and 'Russian' Chroniclers on the Mongol Invasion (28.12.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Larysa Semenko. Our Quiet Genius Leontovych (21.12.2024)
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Everything You Didn't Know About the Cossacks and Wanted to Ask (20.12.2024)
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Primordialism, Constructivism, or Conservatism? (14.12.2024)
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Ukraine Is Part of European Civilization (28.11.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. Ukraine After Pereyaslav 1654 (02.11.2024)
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What Features Did the Early Modern State of the 16th–18th Centuries Have? (30.10.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. Ukrainian Cossackdom: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (26.10.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Oleksiy Sokyrko. Did the Hetmanate Catch the Train of the Military Revolution? (19.10.2024)
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Was Stalin Preparing to Attack in 1941? + extended commentary (16.10.2024)
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Did Rus' Have a Capital? (06.10.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Olha Maklyuk. The Phenomenon of Post-Truth (28.09.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Natalia Starchenko. On Ukrainian early modern history (15.09.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Natalya Starchenko. On Ukrainian early modern history — with pride and without sedatives (07.09.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ruslan Siromskyi. The Cold War, the KGB, the Ukrainian diaspora (31.08.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? (25.08.2024)
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The history of Sudzha: Eastern Slobozhanshchyna, settled by Ukrainian Cossacks (19.08.2024)
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Interview for a Korean audience: the unfinished collapse of the empire, history 'not from Kyiv' (03.08.2024)
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Anatoliy Anatolich's interview: Rus', revolution, the unfinished collapse of the empire (30.06.2024)
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From Kyivan Rus' to Peter I (13.06.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Modern Russian school history textbooks (08.06.2024)
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The 'new imperial history' as a metanarrative (03.06.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Lado Khvedelidze. 'Russian' collaborationism during the Second World War (25.05.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Bohdan Paska. Valentyn Moroz: the path to eternity (18.05.2024)
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Why Nazism and communism are banned in Ukraine (16.05.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Shchupak. Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations (11.05.2024)
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Why the UNR did not form an army: autonomists versus independentists (10.05.2024)
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On Kyivan Rus' and the flag of St. Andrew (07.05.2024)
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The Munich Agreement of 1938 (06.05.2024)
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A meeting with the blogger "Angry Jew": Ukrainian–Jewish relations in the first half of the 20th century (30.04.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Oleh Odnorozhenko. The origin of heraldry: a new perspective (27.04.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday. Nadiia Temirova: the historical dimensions of the Donbas (13.04.2024)
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How to write the history of statehood (02.04.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Larysa Yakubova. Rashism: a global neo-totalitarian challenge (30.03.2024)
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Historian on Saturdays: Oleksandr Gogun. The 1941 DniproHES demolition: truth and myths (28.03.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Shchupak. Memory of the Second World War and the current war (16.03.2024)
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From the Holodomor to Putin (15.03.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Oleksandr Zaitsev. The phenomenon of Ukrainian nationalism of the 1920s–1950s (09.03.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Yana Prymachenko. Was Ukraine a colony of the Kremlin? (part two) (02.03.2024)
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A new history textbook for Ukraine. What should it be like? (I. Shchupak's webinar with V. Dribnytsia, part 1) (21.02.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday. Tairova-Yakovleva: Mazepa and Peter I — who betrayed whom? (17.02.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Yana Prymachenko. History in the Kremlin's service (part one) (10.02.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s (H. Yefimenko, part 2) (03.02.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Anatoliy Podolsky. The ashes of the dead knock at our hearts (27.01.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday. Bolshevism and the "Ukrainian question" (H. Yefimenko, part 1) (20.01.2024)
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Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? (14.01.2024)
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Constitutional questions of the proclamation of independence with A. Mahera (fourth meeting) (23.12.2023)
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Historical and legal problems of the proclamation of Ukraine's independence (10.12.2023)
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The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: forms of statehood (03.11.2023)
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A debate with the Russian activist Novikov (23.10.2023)
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When did the First World War begin? (07.10.2023)
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A dialogue with Dr. O. Naboka (27.09.2023)
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The Rusyns: who they are (15.09.2023)
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Legitimacy, constitutionality, lawfulness — A. Mahera, part 3 (25.08.2023)
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Interview for the "Blyskavka" channel for Independence Day — A. Mahera (24.08.2023)
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From Rus' to the Volhynia Tragedy (compilation, 23.08.2023)
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Legitimacy, constitutionality, lawfulness — A. Mahera, part 2 (21.08.2023)
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Legitimacy, constitutionality, lawfulness — A. Mahera, part 1 (18.08.2023)
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Ukrainian Cossackdom in historical perspective (07.08.2023)
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To stay silent and listen… (the Holodomor of 1932–1933) (05.08.2023)
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On the history of Ukraine in Ukrainian with a young Russian (04.08.2023)
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The main stages of Ukrainian statehood (31.07.2023)
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Jewish-Ukrainian relations. A blitz (12.07.2023)
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Ukraine: statehood across the centuries (a conversation with a subscriber) (02.07.2023)
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The history of Crimea for a resident of Australia (01.07.2023)
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And we never did get to Skovoroda: the 18th century in the history of Ukraine (24.06.2023)
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With a Ukrainian from Nizhny Novgorod about the history of Ukraine (19.06.2023)
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Is Rus' Russia? Answers to questions from a subscriber in London (18.06.2023)
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Rus' in the narrow chronicle sense of the word (11.06.2023)
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The history of the UNR and the ZUNR for a history student (03.06.2023)
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Myths of history: interview on Avtokhvylia radio 102.1FM (20.05.2023)
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On some questions of the history of Rus' (part 2) (29.04.2023)
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Second lecture on the history of Ukraine for a Russian designer (24.04.2023)
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Two Debates on the Holodomor of 1932–33 (02.03.2023)
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Second conversation with a Russian lawyer (15.02.2023)
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From the Second Front to the Bolsheviks: a Conversation with a Subscriber (08.11.2022)
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A Brief Survey of Ukrainian History, 1648–1920: From Bohdan to Symon (02.11.2022)
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Dialogue with Mykyta Sichen About Rus' and Ukraine (02.11.2022)
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On the Causes of World War II (01.11.2022)
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'The Formation of Rus'-Ukraine' — a Lecture for a Russian (31.10.2022)
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Interview with the 'Nadiya' TV Channel About History and the Russo-Ukrainian War (28.10.2022)
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Dialogue with a 'Eurasianist' Historian About Rus' (27.10.2022)
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Two Dialogues About Rus' (26.10.2022)
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On Rus' and Ukraine (Foundations of Ethnopolitics) (25.10.2022)
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Ethnopolitics. The Basics: What an Ethnos and a Nation Are (18.10.2022)
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The Place of the 14th Century in Ukrainian History: 2nd Conversation with Serhiy Olefir (17.10.2022)
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If Not Bandera, Then Shukhevych; If Not Shukhevych, Then the Red Army (10.10.2022)
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Debunking the Myth of the "Golden September" of 1939 (29.09.2022)
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Whose Rus': Why Russians Consider Themselves the Heirs of Kyivan Rus' (19.09.2022)
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Why Mazepa "Betrayed" Peter I (13.08.2022)
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On Russian and Soviet History with a "Russian Mongol" (11.08.2022)
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With a Medic about Bandera (with prologue and epilogue) (27.07.2022)
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Dim and funny: who fed whom in the empire (29.06.2022)
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On Ukrainian symbols: a street dialogue (17.06.2022)
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"The roots of the present lie in the past": a street conversation with a Russian (09.06.2022)
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The Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: a monologue in reply to an opponent (23.05.2022)
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Deportations — the essence of the Russian regime: a text by Serhii Hromenko (18.05.2022)
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From Bandera to the Russo-Ukrainian war (16.05.2022)
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A primer on the Ukrainian language: a street dialogue (25.04.2022)
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The Green Wedge: how Ukrainians settled the Far East (10.04.2022)
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On the Holodomor (05.04.2022)
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A Short Course in Ukrainian History: Who Conquered Whom (04.04.2022)
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Who Does Crimea Belong To: a debate on the peninsula's history (11.01.2022)
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"Russians Are Always Peacemakers": a list of wars in its own law (09.01.2022)
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Attempts at dialogues about history (03.01.2022)
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With an Old Acquaintance about the Famine in the USSR (22.12.2021)
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A Pleasant Conversation with a Subscriber about History (22.12.2021)
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'Hello, Historian': the methodology of history, Sarmatism, and the Khazar myth of the Cossacks' origin (19.12.2021)
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The mechanics of the 1940 annexation of the Baltics: 'a film about two I's' (Dribnytsya, 16.12.2021)
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Calmly about History and Historians: the Closed WWII Archives (14.12.2021)
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For a Russian blogger, on the names of countries: Krievija, Ruthenia, Rusia (11.12.2021)
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Why Ukraine does not return the lands: postwar border treaties superseded the pact (Dribnytsya, 10.12.2021)
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'Very Positively About History': a dialogue with an old acquaintance (09.12.2021)
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'Ajno dusha yeleyem pokryvaetsya': ethnos as a social community, pre-modern self-identification, and the Peace of Westphalia (08.12.2021)
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Trolling Evening: a dialogue on language and Nikon's reform (08.12.2021)
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What They Peddle: the Civil War and the Myth of the 'Genocide of the Russian People' (05.12.2021)
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Cossack statehood, vassalage and the registered Cossacks: the 'Our Song Is Good and New…' dispute (05.12.2021)
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'4 izmereniye' dispute: the founding of Lviv by Danylo Romanovych (05.12.2021)
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On the Principles of Writing History: the geographic principle, Byzantium, and the 'Russian republic' (04.12.2021)
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Debate 'Adequately about everything in the world': the current state of the Norman question (28.11.2021)
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The Battle of Orsha 1514 and the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars: the 'Regular Fact-Checker' dispute (27.11.2021)
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Two pseudo-bloggers again: the etymology of «Rus'» (27.11.2021)
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Debate with a 'Tatar imperialist': Catherine II and the abolition of autonomies (27.11.2021)
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A long conversation about world history: the Byzantinism of Ivan III (27.11.2021)
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A lecture on ethnology: pre-modern identity, the 'city-states' of Rus', and the Charlemagne analogy (26.11.2021)
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Briefly about the UNR: A Street Conversation on the Central Rada and the Universals (25.11.2021)
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On historiosophy and the methodology of history: a street debate (24.11.2021)
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Debate with a subscriber from Estonia: Yuriev (Tartu) and the method of parallel sources (22.11.2021)
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'A Reel of Cranks': 'they returned what was theirs' — dismantling the argument (21.11.2021)
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Crimea and International Law: the 1992/1998 Constitutions, the Border, and Sovereignty (14.11.2021)
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A Short History of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: A Street Debate (13.11.2021)
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On Harari and the Ukrainian SSR at the UN (a dialogue with an Israeli) (07.11.2021)
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A Conversation with a Historian-Archaeologist: the ZUNR, the Act of Unification and Sobornist (07.11.2021)
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On the History of Rus' and Russia: A Dialogue with a Professional Historian (18.10.2021)
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Getting Crimea Right (15.10.2021)
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Russia, the Aggressor State (06.04.2021)