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Kievan Rus flourished from about 882 – when Prince Oleg moved the capital of the Rus from Novgorod to Kiev – until the 13th century, when the Mongol Empire invaded and destroyed their major cities. While Russia gradually threw off the ‘Mongol-Tatar Yoke’, and began to emerge round the city of Moscow as a powerful independent state, Kiev and...

Yesterday was an eventful day in the uneventful life of this site. The piece I published last Thursday, 'Crimea: A Literary Perspective', was linked to in an article by Gary Brecher of PandoDaily. Owing to this, my site more than doubled its previous best view count for a single day. Gary Brecher writes a regular column for PandoDaily, entitled 'War...

The referendum in Crimea which took place yesterday resulted - according to Mikhail Malyshev, the head of the Crimean referendum commission - in 96.77% of voters opting for Crimea's integration with Russia. The referendum was dismissed and decried by the interim government in Kiev as a 'circus performance'; by British Foreign Secretary William Hague as a 'mockery of proper...