Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country fight to reassert its cultural identity in the face of Russian President Vladimir ...

But the history of these symbols goes a good deal further back than that – to the very beginnings of the first cultures known to have settled the lands that are today part of modern Ukraine. “For ...

The Tryzub symbol has featured in Ukrainian lands since the Middle Ages, as the powerful state of Kyivan Rus flourished here. A trident symbol has evident in cultures from Europe to India since time ...