The aristocrat Pavel Skoropadsky founded the Cossack Hetmanate and became a hero in Kiev Some of the most extraordinary stories surface during revolutionary times. After the collapse of the Russian Empire, Pavel Skoropadsky – a brilliant general and aide-de-camp of the last Russian emperor – suddenly remembered his roots and founded the Cossack Hetmanate on the…

Should its territory be threatened, Russia will retaliate with “more powerful weapons,” the Duma speaker has said A “global tragedy” could be in store for humanity if the West keeps supplying weapons to Ukraine, Russia’s most senior lawmaker has warned. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, also suggested that Moscow could retaliate with…

The bloc’s foreign policy chief says gas prices have largely stabilized, but still remain well above the long-term average Lingering problems in the EU energy sector can no longer be attributed to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said in an interview with…