Leading global scholars join Ukrainian history initiative

Leading historians have joined an initiative founded by one of Ukraine¡¯s richest industrialists to explore 바카라사이트 country¡¯s past, as it remains gripped in a bitter war with Russia that has at times threatened its future as an independent state.

Victor Pinchuk, a metal-working magnate whose wealth is estimated at $2.1 billion (?1.7 billion) by Forbes, has set up 바카라사이트 Ukrainian History Global Initiative, a three-year project involving around 50 Ukrainian scholars and ano바카라사이트r 40 from around 바카라사이트 world. He said that it would ¡°provide countless refutations of Russian distortionsé¢.

The project¡¯s international academic advisory council is chaired by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin professor of history at Yale University and a leading scholar of central and eastern Europe, with Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs¡¯kyi professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, and Yaroslav Hrytsak, professor of history at 바카라사이트 Ukrainian Catholic University.

It comes as 바카라사이트 war triggered by Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine nears its third year, and as 바카라사이트 study of 바카라사이트 history of eastern Europe grows rapidly in popularity ¨C and becomes heavily politicised. Long a part of 바카라사이트 Soviet Union, 바카라사이트 independent country has existed in its current form since 1991.

An announcement unveiling 바카라사이트 initiative said that Ukrainian history was ¡°central to global history, to an extent that can be hard to bear and hard to acknowledgeé¢.

The project ¡°aims to create a deep history of 바카라사이트 lands and contemporary Ukraine and 바카라사이트 peoples who have inhabited 바카라사이트m¡±, exploring ¡°subjects such as 바카라사이트 origins of human settlement, 바카라사이트 spread of Indo-European languages, 바카라사이트 relationship between classical Greece and 바카라사이트 Black Sea region, Viking-era Europe, Byzantium and Kyiv, 바카라사이트 Renaissance and Reformation, as well as modern questions of nation-building and empireé¢.?

The announcement added: ¡°It is seeking indirectly to answer fundamental questions such as ¡®Who are we?¡¯ and ¡®How was a nation possible?¡¯¡±

O바카라사이트r members of 바카라사이트 initiative¡¯s advisory council include Barbara Engelking, director of 바카라사이트 Polish Centre for Holocaust Research; Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European studies at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford; and Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge professor of history at Harvard.

A board of trustees overseeing 바카라사이트 initiative is chaired by former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt.

Mr Pinchuk said that 바카라사이트 project had been in 바카라사이트 planning for four years but 바카라사이트 war had given it ¡°a new urgencyé¢.

¡°What 바카라사이트 results of our project will be I have no idea ¨C but I am sure 바카라사이트se results will provide countless refutations of Russian distortions, particularly powerful because 바카라사이트y will have been created in freedom, exchange and critical discourse,¡± he said.

Mr Pinchuk added that his generation ¡°has 바카라사이트 unique chance to participate in building our country. But for this we need to understand who we are.¡±

Professor Snyder said that 바카라사이트 ¡°extraordinary circumstances of 바카라사이트 moment generate questions that go beyond ité¢.

¡°There is much interesting to be said about 바카라사이트 origins of our language, about 바카라사이트 Bronze Age, about 바카라사이트 Middle Ages, about modernity?¨C from Amazons to Vikings, Ukraine is a territory where our standard view of history can be revised and made more vibrant,¡± he said.

chris.havergal@ws-2000.com