Video debates

Catalog of Vitaliy Drybnytsya's video debates, used as sources for articles

• Did a Muscovite state exist? (the "History of Russia" series, 28.03.2026)

  28 March 2026 YouTube 13:51 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. Prosvita, not an Austrian general staff: how Ukrainian cadres were forged (13.12.2025)

  13 December 2025 YouTube 42:22 1 topics
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• Kitsoft: Vitaliy Dribnytsya on the most widespread Russian historical myths (04.10.2025)

  4 October 2025 YouTube 1:15:19 1 topics
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• The «История России» series. Video No. 4. East Slavs, the formation of Rus' (14.09.2025)

  14 September 2025 YouTube 36:57 2 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 7: 'Rus'' as an ethnonym, the treaties of 911/944 (30.08.2025)

  30 August 2025 YouTube 14:38 1 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 6: the spread of the ethnonym 'Rus'' (23.08.2025)

  23 August 2025 YouTube 18:28 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Roman Ofitsynskyi. Avhustyn Voloshyn: Christian, educator, statesman (16.08.2025)

  16 August 2025 YouTube 1:12:56 1 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 5: completion of the formation of Rus' identity (09.08.2025)

  9 August 2025 YouTube 16:24 1 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 4: land-based self-awareness, 12th–13th centuries (02.08.2025)

  2 August 2025 YouTube 15:39 1 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 3: "local" self-awareness (26.07.2025)

  26 July 2025 YouTube 14:21 1 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 2: tribes and archaeological cultures (19.07.2025)

  19 July 2025 YouTube 16:11 1 topics
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• Pre-modern identity No. 1: characteristics of pre-modern ethnicity (12.07.2025)

  12 July 2025 YouTube 19:15 1 topics
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• The "History of Russia" series. Video No. 2. Chapters 1–2 (05.07.2025)

  5 July 2025 YouTube 27:59 2 topics
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• Historian every Saturday: Vasyl Pavlov. Dogs of War or Doves of Peace: military history in wartime (21.06.2025)

  21 June 2025 YouTube 58:43 1 topics
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• The "History of Russia" series. Video No. 1. Introduction (14.06.2025)

  14 June 2025 YouTube 32:56 2 topics
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• A Short History of Ukraine 1657–1921, part 2: the dynasty failed, the hetmanate became elective (28.05.2025)

  28 May 2025 YouTube 22:27 1 topics
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• A Short History of Ukraine 1648–1657, part 1: the dynastic plans of Khmelnytsky (26.05.2025)

  26 May 2025 YouTube 23:36 1 topics
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• Busting the myths of Soviet propaganda and recalling Versailles (11.05.2025)

  11 May 2025 YouTube 21:28 1 topics
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• Inter: Vitaliy Dribnytsya on the teaching of the Second World War in textbooks (09.05.2025)

  9 May 2025 YouTube 15:11 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Oleksandr Gogun. What the Red Army brought to Europe (03.05.2025)

  3 May 2025 YouTube 1:06:47 1 topics
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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)

  19 April 2025 YouTube 1:08:20 1 topics
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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)

  5 April 2025 YouTube 1:05:05 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. Borys Hrinchenko — creator of the 'passport' of the Ukrainian nation (15.03.2025)

  15 March 2025 YouTube 53:33 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Svitlana Vizer. The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church Between Rome and Constantinople (08.03.2025)

  8 March 2025 YouTube 57:32 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Lyudmyla Turchyna. Mykola Khvylovy in the Context of His Era (01.03.2025)

  1 March 2025 YouTube 59:48 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Andriy Grechylo. Ukrainophobia and Its Symbols (22.02.2025)

  22 February 2025 YouTube 1:24:47 1 topics
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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)

  15 February 2025 YouTube 59:28 1 topics
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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)

  1 February 2025 YouTube 48:48 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Iryna Petrenko. Women of Ukraine in the Whirl of Modernization (18.01.2025)

  18 January 2025 YouTube 59:05 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. The Cossacks: What's Not in the Textbooks (11.01.2025)

  11 January 2025 YouTube 45:27 2 topics
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• On Pylyp Orlyk's Constitution (06.01.2025)

  6 January 2025 YouTube 14:47 1 topics
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• 'Ukrainian' and 'Russian' Chroniclers on the Mongol Invasion (28.12.2024)

  28 December 2024 YouTube 14:18 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Larysa Semenko. Our Quiet Genius Leontovych (21.12.2024)

  21 December 2024 YouTube 53:47 1 topics
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• Everything You Didn't Know About the Cossacks and Wanted to Ask (20.12.2024)

  20 December 2024 YouTube 21:49 1 topics
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• Primordialism, Constructivism, or Conservatism? (14.12.2024)

  14 December 2024 YouTube 43:06 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. Ukraine After Pereyaslav 1654 (02.11.2024)

  2 November 2024 YouTube 1:03:27 1 topics
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• What Features Did the Early Modern State of the 16th–18th Centuries Have? (30.10.2024)

  30 October 2024 YouTube 7:53 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. Ukrainian Cossackdom: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (26.10.2024)

  26 October 2024 YouTube 51:46 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Oleksiy Sokyrko. Did the Hetmanate Catch the Train of the Military Revolution? (19.10.2024)

  19 October 2024 YouTube 58:23 1 topics
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• Was Stalin Preparing to Attack in 1941? + extended commentary (16.10.2024)

  16 October 2024 YouTube 14:38 1 topics
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• Did Rus' Have a Capital? (06.10.2024)

  6 October 2024 YouTube 7:54 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Olha Maklyuk. The Phenomenon of Post-Truth (28.09.2024)

  28 September 2024 YouTube 49:09 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Natalia Starchenko. On Ukrainian early modern history (15.09.2024)

  15 September 2024 YouTube 1:09:08 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Natalya Starchenko. On Ukrainian early modern history — with pride and without sedatives (07.09.2024)

  7 September 2024 YouTube 1:11:45 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Ruslan Siromskyi. The Cold War, the KGB, the Ukrainian diaspora (31.08.2024)

  31 August 2024 YouTube 1:07:40 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? (25.08.2024)

  25 August 2024 YouTube 1:14:42 1 topics
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• The history of Sudzha: Eastern Slobozhanshchyna, settled by Ukrainian Cossacks (19.08.2024)

  19 August 2024 YouTube 10:32 1 topics
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• Interview for a Korean audience: the unfinished collapse of the empire, history 'not from Kyiv' (03.08.2024)

  3 August 2024 YouTube 31:08 1 topics
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• Anatoliy Anatolich's interview: Rus', revolution, the unfinished collapse of the empire (30.06.2024)

  30 June 2024 YouTube 1:28:36 3 topics
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• From Kyivan Rus' to Peter I (13.06.2024)

  13 June 2024 YouTube 17:09 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Modern Russian school history textbooks (08.06.2024)

  8 June 2024 YouTube 52:00 1 topics
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• The 'new imperial history' as a metanarrative (03.06.2024)

  3 June 2024 YouTube 20:24 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Lado Khvedelidze. 'Russian' collaborationism during the Second World War (25.05.2024)

  25 May 2024 YouTube 1:13:23 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Bohdan Paska. Valentyn Moroz: the path to eternity (18.05.2024)

  18 May 2024 YouTube 1:00:42 1 topics
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• Why Nazism and communism are banned in Ukraine (16.05.2024)

  16 May 2024 YouTube 24:51 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Shchupak. Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations (11.05.2024)

  11 May 2024 YouTube 52:05 1 topics
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• Why the UNR did not form an army: autonomists versus independentists (10.05.2024)

  10 May 2024 YouTube 30:56 1 topics
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• On Kyivan Rus' and the flag of St. Andrew (07.05.2024)

  7 May 2024 YouTube 19:41 1 topics
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• The Munich Agreement of 1938 (06.05.2024)

  6 May 2024 YouTube 20:51 1 topics
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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)

  30 April 2024 YouTube 43:04 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Oleh Odnorozhenko. The origin of heraldry: a new perspective (27.04.2024)

  27 April 2024 YouTube 57:40 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday. Nadiia Temirova: the historical dimensions of the Donbas (13.04.2024)

  13 April 2024 YouTube 1:10:41 1 topics
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• How to write the history of statehood (02.04.2024)

  2 April 2024 YouTube 19:38 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Larysa Yakubova. Rashism: a global neo-totalitarian challenge (30.03.2024)

  30 March 2024 YouTube 59:23 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Shchupak. Memory of the Second World War and the current war (16.03.2024)

  16 March 2024 YouTube 1:09:07 1 topics
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• From the Holodomor to Putin (15.03.2024)

  15 March 2024 YouTube 37:10 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Oleksandr Zaitsev. The phenomenon of Ukrainian nationalism of the 1920s–1950s (09.03.2024)

  9 March 2024 YouTube 47:40 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Yana Prymachenko. Was Ukraine a colony of the Kremlin? (part two) (02.03.2024)

  2 March 2024 YouTube 59:32 1 topics
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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)

  21 February 2024 YouTube 54:49 2 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday. Tairova-Yakovleva: Mazepa and Peter I — who betrayed whom? (17.02.2024)

  17 February 2024 YouTube 58:02 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Yana Prymachenko. History in the Kremlin's service (part one) (10.02.2024)

  10 February 2024 YouTube 1:11:34 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s (H. Yefimenko, part 2) (03.02.2024)

  3 February 2024 YouTube 1:13:44 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Anatoliy Podolsky. The ashes of the dead knock at our hearts (27.01.2024)

  27 January 2024 YouTube 59:30 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday. Bolshevism and the "Ukrainian question" (H. Yefimenko, part 1) (20.01.2024)

  20 January 2024 YouTube 54:16 1 topics
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• Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? (14.01.2024)

  14 January 2024 YouTube 1:14:55 1 topics
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• Constitutional questions of the proclamation of independence with A. Mahera (fourth meeting) (23.12.2023)

  23 December 2023 YouTube 34:41 1 topics
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• Historical and legal problems of the proclamation of Ukraine's independence (10.12.2023)

  10 December 2023 YouTube 49:48 1 topics
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• The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: forms of statehood (03.11.2023)

  3 November 2023 YouTube 59:28 1 topics
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• A debate with the Russian activist Novikov (23.10.2023)

  23 October 2023 YouTube 48:02 1 topics
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• When did the First World War begin? (07.10.2023)

  7 October 2023 YouTube 7:34 2 topics
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• A dialogue with Dr. O. Naboka (27.09.2023)

  27 September 2023 YouTube 56:49 1 topics
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• The Rusyns: who they are (15.09.2023)

  15 September 2023 YouTube 19:19 1 topics
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• Legitimacy, constitutionality, lawfulness — A. Mahera, part 3 (25.08.2023)

  25 August 2023 YouTube 50:12 1 topics
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• Interview for the "Blyskavka" channel for Independence Day — A. Mahera (24.08.2023)

  24 August 2023 YouTube 31:05 1 topics
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• Legitimacy, constitutionality, lawfulness — A. Mahera, part 2 (21.08.2023)

  21 August 2023 YouTube 44:00 1 topics
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• Legitimacy, constitutionality, lawfulness — A. Mahera, part 1 (18.08.2023)

  18 August 2023 YouTube 50:15 1 topics
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• Ukrainian Cossackdom in historical perspective (07.08.2023)

  7 August 2023 YouTube 16:04 1 topics
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• To stay silent and listen… (the Holodomor of 1932–1933) (05.08.2023)

  5 August 2023 YouTube 29:33 1 topics
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• On the history of Ukraine in Ukrainian with a young Russian (04.08.2023)

  4 August 2023 YouTube 20:59 1 topics
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• The main stages of Ukrainian statehood (31.07.2023)

  31 July 2023 YouTube 27:35 1 topics
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• Jewish-Ukrainian relations. A blitz (12.07.2023)

  12 July 2023 YouTube 23:56 1 topics
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• Ukraine: statehood across the centuries (a conversation with a subscriber) (02.07.2023)

  2 July 2023 YouTube 1:20:47 1 topics
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• The history of Crimea for a resident of Australia (01.07.2023)

  1 July 2023 YouTube 22:55 1 topics
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• And we never did get to Skovoroda: the 18th century in the history of Ukraine (24.06.2023)

  24 June 2023 YouTube 54:32 1 topics
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• With a Ukrainian from Nizhny Novgorod about the history of Ukraine (19.06.2023)

  19 June 2023 YouTube 16:52 2 topics
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• Is Rus' Russia? Answers to questions from a subscriber in London (18.06.2023)

  18 June 2023 YouTube 29:45 1 topics
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• Rus' in the narrow chronicle sense of the word (11.06.2023)

  11 June 2023 YouTube 26:10 1 topics
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• The history of the UNR and the ZUNR for a history student (03.06.2023)

  3 June 2023 YouTube 23:24 1 topics
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• Myths of history: interview on Avtokhvylia radio 102.1FM (20.05.2023)

  20 May 2023 YouTube 51:48 3 topics
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• On some questions of the history of Rus' (part 2) (29.04.2023)

  29 April 2023 YouTube 52:18 1 topics
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• Second lecture on the history of Ukraine for a Russian designer (24.04.2023)

  24 April 2023 YouTube 51:44 1 topics
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• Second conversation with a Russian lawyer (15.02.2023)

  15 February 2023 YouTube 36:49 1 topics
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• From the Second Front to the Bolsheviks: a Conversation with a Subscriber (08.11.2022)

  8 November 2022 YouTube 29:35 2 topics
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• A Brief Survey of Ukrainian History, 1648–1920: From Bohdan to Symon (02.11.2022)

  2 November 2022 YouTube 27:47 1 topics
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• Dialogue with Mykyta Sichen About Rus' and Ukraine (02.11.2022)

  2 November 2022 YouTube 1:18:36 2 topics
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• On the Causes of World War II (01.11.2022)

  1 November 2022 YouTube 26:48 3 topics
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• 'The Formation of Rus'-Ukraine' — a Lecture for a Russian (31.10.2022)

  31 October 2022 YouTube 30:07 2 topics
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• Interview with the 'Nadiya' TV Channel About History and the Russo-Ukrainian War (28.10.2022)

  28 October 2022 YouTube 22:27 1 topics
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• Dialogue with a 'Eurasianist' Historian About Rus' (27.10.2022)

  27 October 2022 YouTube 21:42 1 topics
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• Two Dialogues About Rus' (26.10.2022)

  26 October 2022 YouTube 26:07 1 topics
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• On Rus' and Ukraine (Foundations of Ethnopolitics) (25.10.2022)

  25 October 2022 YouTube 38:30 1 topics
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• Ethnopolitics. The Basics: What an Ethnos and a Nation Are (18.10.2022)

  18 October 2022 YouTube 35:20 1 topics
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• The Place of the 14th Century in Ukrainian History: 2nd Conversation with Serhiy Olefir (17.10.2022)

  17 October 2022 YouTube 57:13 1 topics
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• If Not Bandera, Then Shukhevych; If Not Shukhevych, Then the Red Army (10.10.2022)

  10 October 2022 YouTube 22:45 1 topics
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• Debunking the Myth of the "Golden September" of 1939 (29.09.2022)

  29 September 2022 YouTube 24:12 1 topics
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• Whose Rus': Why Russians Consider Themselves the Heirs of Kyivan Rus' (19.09.2022)

  19 September 2022 YouTube 51:42 1 topics
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• Why Mazepa "Betrayed" Peter I (13.08.2022)

  13 August 2022 YouTube 15:36 1 topics
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• On Russian and Soviet History with a "Russian Mongol" (11.08.2022)

  11 August 2022 YouTube 36:59 1 topics
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• With a Medic about Bandera (with prologue and epilogue) (27.07.2022)

  27 July 2022 YouTube 16:45 1 topics
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• On Ukrainian symbols: a street dialogue (17.06.2022)

  17 June 2022 YouTube 08:53 1 topics
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• "The roots of the present lie in the past": a street conversation with a Russian (09.06.2022)

  9 June 2022 YouTube 40:23 1 topics
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• The Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: a monologue in reply to an opponent (23.05.2022)

  23 May 2022 YouTube 20:14 1 topics
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• Deportations — the essence of the Russian regime: a text by Serhii Hromenko (18.05.2022)

  18 May 2022 YouTube 04:29 1 topics
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• From Bandera to the Russo-Ukrainian war (16.05.2022)

  16 May 2022 YouTube 19:00 1 topics
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• A primer on the Ukrainian language: a street dialogue (25.04.2022)

  25 April 2022 YouTube 06:08 1 topics
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• The Green Wedge: how Ukrainians settled the Far East (10.04.2022)

  10 April 2022 YouTube 12:59 1 topics
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• On the Holodomor (05.04.2022)

  5 April 2022 YouTube 8:25 1 topics
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• A Short Course in Ukrainian History: Who Conquered Whom (04.04.2022)

  4 April 2022 YouTube 37:28 1 topics
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• Briefly about the UNR: A Street Conversation on the Central Rada and the Universals (25.11.2021)

  25 November 2021 YouTube 18:43 1 topics
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• A Short History of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921: A Street Debate (13.11.2021)

  13 November 2021 YouTube 25:45 1 topics
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• On Harari and the Ukrainian SSR at the UN (a dialogue with an Israeli) (07.11.2021)

  7 November 2021 YouTube 8:44 1 topics
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• A Conversation with a Historian-Archaeologist: the ZUNR, the Act of Unification and Sobornist (07.11.2021)

  7 November 2021 YouTube 24:51 1 topics
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• On the History of Rus' and Russia: A Dialogue with a Professional Historian (18.10.2021)

  18 October 2021 YouTube 27:14 1 topics
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• Getting Crimea Right (15.10.2021)

  15 October 2021 YouTube 30:38 1 topics
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• Russia, the Aggressor State (06.04.2021)

  7 April 2021 YouTube 23:37 1 topics
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