Danylo Yanevsky

His doctoral dissertation monograph "Political systems of Ukraine 1917–1920: creation attempts and causes of defeat" (2003) was recognized as the "Best Book of the Year."

On Massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia:

He considers Bohdan Khmelnytsky an antihero of Ukraine, a man who brought catastrophe to Ukraine, and «a man who sold everyone who could be sold to everyone who would buy it; a man who spent the rest of his life legitimizing this quasi-state is an ugly entity in which people did not exist at all, but this Cossack's peasantry existed as the ruling class.»

He is quite critical of the proposed modern Ukrainian historiography and believes that it is «made in Moscow, it is made in other geographical centers, abundantly scattered on the political map of the world.

We need, I personally need, to know the truth.

I do not want to live in a lie, and therefore what I am doing is destroying myths that are called national, but which are actually completely destructive and turn our people into a herd.

If a herd wants to remain a herd, let it remain; and I am a free person and I want to live in a free country.»

Yanevsky has been the creator, producer, and factual editor of several popular historical documentary films, including the multimedia project "Secrets of Ukrainian Independence," dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Ukraine as an independent state.

Danylo Borysovych Yanevsky (Дани́ло Бори́сович Яне́вський, June 21, 1956, in Chernivtsi, USSR) is a Ukrainian historian, TV personality, and radio host.

He studied 1974–1979 at Chernivtsi University, in the Faculty of history, where he graduated with honors.

Danylo's candidate's thesis (1988) is devoted to the peculiarities of the political, economic, and social crisis of 1917 based on the material of Ukrainian provinces within Russian Empire.

In 1992, he was a member of the Heraldic Commission of the Verkhovna Rada, on the recommendations of which the symbols of the new European independent state were established – the coat of arms, anthem, and flag of Ukraine.

For 30 years, Danylo worked as an editor, correspondent, and presenter of television and radio programs: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America, 1+1, 5 Channel, Hromadske, and ZiK.

He was awarded Honored Journalist of Ukraine (2005), and Doctor of Historical Sciences of Ukraine (2008).

In 2016 he co-founded the Ukrainian Media Network media platform.

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In July 2018 he supported an open letter from Ukrainian cultural figures to Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia.

For 40 years Yanevsky has been researching the peculiarities of the formation and development of Ukraine as a synthesis of civilizations that existed on its territory.

He is the author of more than 20 monographs, including a four-volume book on the history of the Masonic movement which had a significant impact on the formation of Ukraine as a unique civilizational entity.

Other publications include his volumes of the "Ukraine Project" series – "portraits on the background of the era" of famous historical figures: M. Hrushevskyi, P. Skoropadskyi, S. Petlyura, E. Konovalets, A. Melnyk, S. Bandera, R. Shukhevich – which analyze peculiarities of their views on Ukraine as an independent state and the results of their political practices.

He was the husband of the journalist Marta Kolomayets, who died in 2020.

After graduating he continued his studies as a researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.