Angus McBride «Amazon and Scythian horse-warriors attack Theseus outside Athens
during their legendary invasion of Attica. [Based on] A fifth-century
BC representation of possibly a Mycenean scene.» (http://gadsircomics.blogspot.pt/2007/05/angus-and-amazons.html)
«Kaukasus mit Siedlungsgebieten von Sarmaten und Amazonen in der Antike, Kupferstich von ca. 1770»
| «Map showing Ancient Greek colonies on the northern coast of the Black Sea» MapMaster (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en «The Borysthenes, the second largest of the Scythian rivers, is, in my opinion, the most valuable and productive not only of the rivers in this part of the world, but anywhere else, with the sole exception of the River Nile...It provides the finest and most abundant pasture, by far the richest supply of the best sorts of fish and the most excellent water for drinking - clear and bright... no better crops grow anywhere than along its banks, and where grain is not sown the grass is the most luxuriant in the world.» Herodotus «Histories» |
«Historical spread of Iranian peoples/languages: Scythia, Sarmatia, Bactria and the Parthian Empire in ca.100-50 BC. Modern political boundaries are shown to facilitate orientation.» Dbachmann - Wikipedia - Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)
Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus with cities like CIMMERIUM (Kimmerikon) by Semhur (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
«Map of the Roman Empire in 125 during the reign of emperor Hadrien» Andrei Nacu - Wikipedia - Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)
Iron Age ... UCRAINA was inhabited by Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Greeks (coolonies), Romans and after Byzantines until VI century a.C.
TYRAS
OLBIA
HERMONASSA
PANTICAPAEUM
NYMPHAEUM
Photo by Kurgus (Wikipedia)
CHERSONESSUS
«The Eastern Roman Empire (purple) and its vassals (pink) in 555 AD during the reign of Justinian I.» Tataryn77 (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
«Byzantine empire before the Crusades», before 1096. Spiridon Manoliu (Wikipedia)
«Constantinople in Byzantine times» DeliDumrul (Wikipedia)
«Genoese fortress in Sudak» photo by Qypchak» (Wikipedia)
«The Genoese fortress Chembalo in Balaklava» photo by Qypchak» (Wikipedia)
But after 500 a.C. emerged a Slavic culture: at North of the Prut, South of Dvina (Daugava, Düna), East of Oder begining and Vistula finish, in Dnieper basin to East.
«Linguistic Area of Baltic-Slavic languages» Hxseek (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
SeikoEn (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
«Kievan Rus' or Kyivan Rus', medieval state of the Eastern Slavs. It was the earliest predecessor of modern Ukraine and Russia. Flourishing from the 10th to the 13th cent., it included nearly all of present-day Ukraine and Belarus and part of NW European Russia.» by YT (Wikipedia)
The Slavs created with Varegians, the Kievan Rus´ with it rise and fal between 882 a.C. and 1283 a.C. The capital was Kiev, Kyiv, with the leggendary brothers founders Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv with them sister Lybid. The city is now sister of Lisbon, capital of Portugal.
«Statue of the founders of Kiev, on the bank of the Dnieper in Kiev, Ukraine» (1982) in a photo by Rooland Geider (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
«The Hungarians at Kiev» in 830 d.C. by Pál Vágó (1885)
After the fall of Kievan Rus´ emerged the Principality Galicia–Volhynia or Kingdom of Rus' (Regnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae, Regnum Russiae) leaded by Roman Mstislavich. After Mongol invasion turned to a vassalage with Golden Horde between 1246 and 1349, when was conquested by Polish.
SeikoEn (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Ukraine, meaning border, became under control of the unions between Poland anf Lithuania
«Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1619)» Ras67 (Wikipedia)
Ruthenian peasants (Ukrainians and from other nations) became Cossacks, members of democratic, semi-military and semi-naval communities that in 1648 triggered a war of independence and create a state, the Hetmanate, until 1764, roots of modern independent Ukraine.
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky´s triumphal entry to Kiev in 1648, painted by Mykola Ivasiuk (late XIX Century)
Cossaks had the threats of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, the Otoman Turks , and the rising of Russia. And was the Russian Empire that became the more important ruler of Ukraine territory with some parts under control of Austrian Empire.
«Ukrainian Gubernias» Shliahov (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
And along the complicated XX Century, Ukraine win, lost and win independence and territories ... until the fall of Soviet Empire and it independence in 1991.
«Ukrainian territorial evolution, 1918-1991» Spiridon Ion Cepleanu (Wikipedia) Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Strange cases happened in modern Ukraine ...
The European Court of Human Rights judgment (April 30, 2013) about former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2005, 2007-2010) «Ms. Tymoshenko’s pre-trial detention had been arbitrary; that the lawfulness of her detention had not been properly reviewed; and, that she had no possibility to seek compensation for her unlawful deprivation of liberty».
«Yulia Tymoshenko in November 2009» - Premier.gov.ru (licence Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en)
These is the resultant of Slavic culture in Europe:
«Map of Slavic languages in Europe in English.» Palu/Rezonansowy (Wikipedia)
«Frog Tsarevna» by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1918)
«Three queens of the underground kingdom» by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1879)
«Ivan Zarevitch on the grey Wolf» by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1889)
«Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom» by Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1876), that was born in Chuhuiv
«Ship «Empress Maria» in storm» by Ivan Aivazovsky (1892), that was born in Theodosia.
An organization of women founded in Ukraine have political impact in world:
«We are Femen (...)
You can hear us shouting "Fuck off, dictator!", "I'm not your sex toy!", or "Religion is slavery!" You can see our half-naked bodies facing Berlusconi, Putin or the Pope. You can feel how deep our anger is by looking in our eyes. We are feminism's shock troops, a spearhead unit of militants, a modern incarnation of the word fearless.
We are Femen. Our nakedness attacks the raw nerve of the historic conflict between women and "the system". We are nothing less than its most visual and fitting embodiment. Our activists' bodies represent undisguised hatred for the patriarchal order, and display the new aesthetics of a rejuvenated woman's revolution.
Femen is our attempt at rethinking the history of feminism in its entirety. We believe that if women are left with little more than satisfying sexual desires as a life purpose, then our sexuality must become politicised. We are not denying our potential to be treated as sex objects. On the contrary, we are taking our sexuality into our own hands, turning it against our enemy. We are transforming female sexual subordination into aggression, and thereby starting the real war.
Make no mistake about it: we are at war. This is an ideological war, a war of traditionalism against modernity, oppression against freedom, dictatorship against the right to free expression. We are targeting the three principle manifestations of patriarchy: religion, the sex industry, and dictatorship.
"I didn't have time to see if they looked good or not, whether they were blondes or not" – such were the words of Putin after our most recent act of diversion, when Femen activistsconfronted him in Hanover, shouting to his face, "Fuck you, dictator!" Putin was quick to smile, but a Kremlin official was already demanding that Germany punish our activists. Within half an hour, four criminal cases had been opened against the dictator's assailants.
This is our reality. Femen activists are arrested, beaten up or even kidnapped, as happened to us in Belarus after our protest ridiculing president Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk.
Machismo can be defeated only through feminine rebellion. No authoritarian leader is interested in popular opinion, which would personally hurt him. Femen's tactics aim to do just that: hurt and humiliate them personally. Tossing shoes at Bush is nothing compared to our attack against Putin. Never before had he found his holy body, under the protection of dozens of professional security guards, so imperilled.
We were amateurs when we demonstrated against Putin in 2011, in Kiev, dozens of kilometres away from our target. But we improved our skills when we besieged the polling station in Moscow in 2012, just 20 minutes after our Putin had left the place. One year later, we faced him and bared our breasts in defiance.
Putin is a homophobe and an oligarch embodying the merger of church and state, putting his personal interests before those of 150 million people in the process. Only recently has he announced that Russia is not a country for gay people, just as our George H W Bush, in his time, said the US was not a country for atheists. Putin is not stopping at that, so we are going to stop him.
How, you ask? Yes, dear readers, with our bare breasts alone! We are responding by knocking down the great oligarch and his security-service clowns, and with them, the image he has been so carefully cultivating.
Femen is a huge experiment. Every day we find new ways to destroy the patriarchy, new words with which to answer our opponents. We are calling for a global sexual revolt against the system. We cannot tell you of our upcoming plans, or what the final result of our struggle will be, but we're working on them around the clock. The only thing I can say for sure to all those against whom we are fighting is that we are not about to let you enshrine such shit as yourselves in a cult.» Inna Shevchenko, leader of the women's movement FEMEN («We are Femen, the naked scock troops of feminism» The Guardian 10 April 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/10/femen-naked-shock-troops-of-feminism
«(...) I realised that the patriarchy was not somewhere outside. It was right in front of us, in Femen's office. And our global fight with patriarchy started with the fight in our own private life.
This is when I decided to leave Ukraine for France to build a new Femen. A Femen in which women decide and follow their own ideas, not someone else's demands. One year ago I started from the beginning again with new colleagues from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands and Tunisia. The Femen fight still involves men – those who support us but do not dominate. Unlike Svyatski, from whom we broke free.
The original ideology of Femen remains as we created it, but now we are applying it the way it was originally intended. This change has already paid off: Femen has inspired women all over the world.
We have come to the Venice film festival to tell our story because this is the patriarchal reality that we all live in. Criticising us for our fight against men's domination in our own lives is like criticising the fight against all patriarchy in the world. Today we tell our story hoping that we can inspire women suffering the same oppression in their fight against it tomorrow.» Inna Shevchenko 5 September 2013 «Femen let Victor Svyatski take over because we didn´t know how to fight it» http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/victory-svyatski-femen-man
The old problems about all kind of human organizations that want change the ways of the History inside History ... but the courage against the tyranny seems clear for example in Belarus, Minsk, 2011, with an incredible reaction by the forces of the tyrant (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16275566)
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