Author: Victoria A. Malko

FRESNO, Calif. – To draw the attention of American academia to the second anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, the Department of History at California State University, Fresno, held a teach-in webinar on February 20. The webinar, titled “Russia’s War of Aggression and Genocide of the Ukrainians: Two Years On,” served as a solemn...

On the eve of the 365th day of the brutal and unprovoked Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the most important reason for Kyiv to win the war is so that the genocide being perpetrated against Ukrainians by Russian President Vladimir Putin is halted. Last May, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal...

FRESNO, Calif. – Following the German Bundestag’s historic vote on November 30 to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide, the National Association of Holodomor Genocide Scholars organized a roundtable discussion on December 1 at the Ukrin­form Press Center in Kyiv. In her opening remarks, the head of the association, Dr. Olesia Stasiuk, noted that Germany...

“We’ll kill as many [of you] as we have to: 1 million, 5 million or [we will] exterminate all of you,” Pavel Gubarev, a Russian proxy official in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, said in a video posted online in October that was addressed to Ukrainians. Russia’s eight-month-old war of aggression against Ukraine must be...

FRESNO, Calif. – Ukrainian children fleeing the horrors of Russia’s unjust and unprovoked war on their country have been able to find some measure of peace and solace this summer at the Pearl of Transnistria camp located in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine. “Since the beginning of this war, there are no ‘other people’s...

ESSEN, Germany – Rolf Fliss, the mayor of Essen, Germany, hosted an international conference, titled “Genocide of the Ukrainians: From Past to Present,” on June 10. The international conference was held in a hybrid format to allow scholars to join from Canada, Ukraine and the United States. Conference presentations focused on the legal aspects and...

Denial lasts throughout and always follows genocide. If genocide goes unacknowledged, “[it] is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres,” warned Gregory H. Stanton of George Mason University. According to Mr. Stanton, denial includes the following actions typically taken by perpetrators: “They dig up the mass graves, … try to cover up the evidence...

I have a dream that Ukrainian civil society and the Ukrainian scientific community will overcome the post-genocidal syndrome and recover from the dependency on seeing the world through the eyes of the perpetrators. For the past 30 years, independent-minded Ukrainian historians have been trying to extricate the national narrative from the symptoms of the Homo...

FRESNO, Calif. – The Holodomor Research Institute in Kyiv held its fifth international conference on “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of the Holodomor-Genocide” via Zoom on November 25. Leading scholars from various research institutes, universities and museums in Ukraine as well as members of the Ukrainian diaspora who specialize in Holodomor studies took part. The...