ISSUE 173 - May 2, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The World of Stamps:
Ukraine’s Complicated History
By Geir Sør-Reime
The political history of Ukraine is long and complicated. If we jump to around 880 AD, the city of Kiev was founded by the Rus, Varangians who had first established Starya Ladoga, later Novgorod and then made Kiev their centre. The Rus state became probably the world’s most powerful state in the 10th and 11th centuries, until the Mongol invasion in the 13th century completely crushed the flourishing Rus state, and Kiev was . . .
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