(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anya Free, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) As Ukraine prepared to ...

IN 1708, Charles XII of Sweden invaded Ukraine. His aim was to use it as a base for a final advance on Peter the Great’s Moscow. The Cossack hetman, Ivan Mazeppa, decided to throw his lot in with the ...

An exhibition of over 500 artifacts including Scythian gold telling the ancient history of Crimea has opened in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The items were loaned from museums in Crimea, Kyiv, and ...

Is Kyiv really 1,500 years old? Why is the capital called the "Mother of Rus' cities"? And where was the princes' fortress located? To mark Kyiv Day, RBC-Ukraine spoke with Nataliia Pinchuk, a senior ...