Early History of Ukraine: A millennium ago, Ukraine was at the heart of the Kyivan Rus’ (Rus’ land). Kyivan Rus was a federation of the East Slavic, Baltic, and Finnic peoples of eastern and northern Europe, with its capital in Kyiv. Modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus all trace their cultural ancestry to the Kyivan Rus’. The Kyivan Rus’ reached its greatest …
How USSR collapsed? The fall of the Soviet Union started in the late 1980s with protests in the Eastern Bloc and in Soviet republics along with the Soviet exit from Afghanistan. The Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan in 1979. After 10 years of fighting the Mujahideen, who were backed by the U.S., Pakistan and …
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Context: COVID Vaccine IPR debate Why Capitalism is least concerned about Humanity? Focused on profit: Capitalists insist that private producers of vaccines must make profits because that is their compensation for investing in research and production. They believe that they are not morally compelled to serve the poor at a loss. For the poor, governments …
Context: French President Emmanuel Macron asked for forgiveness for his country’s role in the 1994 Rwandan massacre in which about 8,00,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were killed. Hutu-Tutsi relations: The majority Hutus and minority Tutsis have had a troubled relationship in Rwanda that goes back to the German and Belgian colonial period. Colonialists ruled Rwanda through …
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India’s Contribution to World War II: WW2: World War II, also called Second World War, was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were: Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan. Allies: France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. India sacrificed …
India’s Contribution to World War I: WW1: World War I (WW I), also known as the Great War, lasted from July 1914 to November 1918. WW I was fought between the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. Allied Powers: France, Russia, and Britain. The United States also fought on the side of the Allies after 1917. Central …
The Trinity Test The super bomb, nicknamed ‘Gadget’, was built by a team of scientists at a top-secret site in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was developed as part of the US-led Manhattan Project, which sought to build nuclear weapons to give the allied forces an edge over Germany, Japan and Italy in World War …
Context: When Vladivostok, the main city of the Russian Far East, marked the 160th anniversary of its founding, it resulted in a wave of abuse from Chinese social media users who claimed that the city historically belonged to China. The Vladivostok City Vladivostok is a city and the administrative centre of the Far Eastern Federal …
Opium Wars are the two armed conflicts in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. The first Opium War (1839–42) was fought between China and Britain. The Second Opium War (1856–60), also known as the Arrow War or the …
It is said that in some ways the Second World War is yet to end in Asia. Elaborate why. (200 Words) September 2, 1945 is a red letter day in world history as on this date the Japanese surrender became official and it is recognised as the date of the ending of the Second World …