The article considers the process of establishment of amicable relations between Russia and Ukraine in hard 1990s. Special attention is attached to international treaties and public initiatives, aimed at cooperation strengthening.
The article is concerned with the development of Svyatogorsk Monastery in XVI–XVIII centuries. The author describes monk’s structure and types of economical activities, monastery property location and management and monastery impact on Donetsk Region economy formation and development.
This article is focused on the aspects of Soviet social and cultural policy, concerning establishment of new Soviet festive culture in the environment of the southern Russia’s peasantry in 1920s and interaction of polyethnic cultures.
The article analyses the process of discussion of the Bill on Abortion in Donbass regional press, considers the discussion, its participants, presents major arguments of abortion opponents and supporters, analyses the mechanism to manage opinion formation.
The article studies the perception of Soviet citizens by West Ukrainian population during the events of 1939–1941, which formed specific stereotypes, still in force and having impact on humanitarian relations between Ukraine and Russia.
The article analyses three major trends of Ukrainian campaigns in World War II – national, pro-German and pro-Soviet, considers the features of the perception of these campaigns in today’s Ukraine.
The contribution considers one of the events of ideological campaign, struggling for cosmopolitism, bourgeois objectivism and nationalism in Soviet historical science of the late 1940s. Special attention is attached to the consideration of the model “Short Course in History of Ukraine” as the instrument of political and ideological verification.
The article presents brief analysis of relations between Russia and Ukraine over the last two decades: from 1994 to 2011. Special attention is attached to intergovernmental relations between the countries, concerning economical, political and strategic issues in the context of Ukrainian presidents’ policy, from L.D. Kuchma to sitting president V.F. Yuanukovich.
The article analyses start-up and activities of Ukrainian public organizations in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog. Basing on different sources, it considers official mechanisms and practice of ethnic self-consciousness support of Ukrainian population in Rostov Region. According to the author, they mainly have external character towards Ukrainian population and are supported by the efforts of small groups of people.
The article is focused on scientific and organizational aspects of Russian and Ukrainian historiography establishment, concerning Great Patriotic War. The author has singled and justified the major stages and mechanisms of their development.