On June 9, 2023, the Primary Scientific Law Institute of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University held an interdisciplinary conference “Ukraine – a Territory of Genocide: Cross-views of the French and Ukrainian Historians and Lawyers on the Genocide in Ukraine.” The conference was attended by the head of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of History Research Igor Raikivsky, Associate Professor of the Department Stepan Kobuta and a leading faculty member of the Institute of History, Etnology and Archeology of the Carpathians Bogdan Paska.
The visit took place with the participation of scientists from the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University and the University of Paris XII Val-de-Marne. The moderator was Natalia Yatskiv, candidate of philological sciences, professor, and dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages. The conference was opened by the rector of the Prykarpattia National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk Igor Tsependa and the lawyer of the Court of Appeal of Paris, professor at the University of Paris XII Val-de-Marne Nicolas Lignol.
During the hour of the conference, French and Ukrainian historians exchanged thoughts about the genocide of Ukrainians and the establishment of bases for recognizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as genocide. The numerous genocides planned by the Moscow communist regime were unlikely to destroy the Ukrainians as a national group that recognized itself as a nation and was ready to vote for independence for sympathetic minds.
The participants spoke on the following topics: “Resisting mass killings by international organizations, together with the Organization for Security and Defense in Europe” – representative of the OSCE organization David Piguet; “The formation of a modern Ukrainian nation in the European context of the 19th – first third of the 20th century and Russian imperialism (before Stalin’s pogrom of Ukraine)” – head of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of History Igor Raikivsky; “The Ukrainian National Liberal Revolution from the beginning of the 1950s to the beginning of the 1980s: the fight against the Soviet regime” – a leading specialist of the Institute of History, Ethnology and Archeology of the Carpathians Bohdan Paska; “The struggle for the national sovereignty of Ukraine against Russian imperialism during the collapse of the USSR in the 1980s – at the beginning of the 1990s” – Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine and Methods of History Research Stepan Kobuta; “Illumination of mass killings in Ukraine by European serpents” – professor at Sorbonne University Alla Poedi; “Qualification of reprisals from the point of view of international criminal law” – professor at the University of Paris XII Val-de-Marne Nicolas Lignol; “Criminal and legal characteristics of hatred in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine” – assistant of the Department of Politics in the Sphere of Combating Malignity and Criminal Law of the Basic Scientific Law Institute Maxym Yatsyna and others.
In addition, before the start of the conference, the participants of the conference got together with the University and went to the exhibition hall of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, where they were acquainted and looked at the mystical creations of students.