Soon after Ukraine become an independent country, Washington Post published the survey of US high school students that included multiple choice answer to the question: "What is Ukraine?" The answer that got highest score was "Some kind of sexual organ". Another thing I remember from that time was the analytical article, which concluded that if Ukraine and Russia reunite, it would be beginning of the Soviet Union recreation – the worst nightmare for US policymakers.
Now most Westerners know that Ukraine is "a nice but poor, democracy building country, bullied by neighboring Russia". Mainstream media draws this picture for many years with little objectivity and a lot of plain lies about Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia conflict. This is the reason I decided to present my own story.
Both books of the series mix personal recollections of Ukraine born author, hushed by major media events, and author's understanding of past, present and future of his country. Book one covers period from the USSR breakup and the appearance of independent Ukraine, (with just a brief introduction about 1000 years of earlier history) up to regime change in Kiev in 2014. Book two is about the different Ukraine that emerged from the previous one after 2014.