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Russia–Ukraine relations

  • Belovezha AccordsStanislav Shushkevich stood in the snow of Belovezhskaya Pushcha on the 8th of December 1991. The air was cold enough to freeze breath, yet three men sat…
  • Russian-occupied territories of UkraineOn the 27th of November 2013, a pro-European demonstration erupted in Kyiv. This event marked the beginning of the Euromaidan protests that would reshape…
  • Revolution of DignityOn the evening of the 18th of February 2014, thousands of protesters marched from Independence Square toward the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv.
  • Russian-occupied territoriesThe 1992 battle of Bender turned the Dniester river into a blood-soaked boundary. Russian military intervention in June 1992 secured victory for separatists…
  • 2014 pro-Russian unrest in UkraineOn the 21st of November 2013, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union.
  • Russia–Ukraine relationsKyiv functioned as the capital of Kievan Rus, a polity that united most East Slavic tribes and adopted Byzantine Orthodoxy between the ninth and eleventh…