Yana Prymachenko

Yana Leonidivna Prymachenko is a Ukrainian historian, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and senior research fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine. She researches historical memory, the Second World War, the Ukrainian liberation movement, and the mechanisms by which history is used in Russian propaganda.

In Vox Veritatis materials

The lectures from the “Historian Every Saturday” series — “History in the Service of the Kremlin” and “Was Ukraine a Colony of the Kremlin?” — are used as sources in the article Was Ukraine a Colony of Russia: the political (rather than economic) nature of Russian colonialism, the “Russian world” as a modernized imperial identity, and the hierarchy of ethnicities in the USSR.