Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf was presented with the lifetime achievement award of the Molodist Kiev International Film Festival, which was held from October 20^th-28th. He also received the grand prize of the festival, the Scythian Deer, from the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

The Slavs are the largest mass of European peoples sharing common ethnic and linguistic roots.  Classical authors during the 1st century AD mention Slavs, and some scholars maintain that the Greek historian Herodotus wrote of the Slavs in the 5th century BC.  The Lusatian culture, which dates back to the 2d millennium BC, is believed by some archaeologists to have been Slavic.  Originally Asian, the Slavs migrated to Europe for economic and political reasons.

Various Slavic groups living in Eastern Europe were conquered by the Huns during the late 4th century AD.  The subsequent dissolution of the Hun Empire during the mid-5th century sparked the great migration of the Slavs westward, southward, and northward.  Some eventually settled in Bohemia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia.  Others entered what are today Hungary and Romania.  These groups have been identified as Antae, or East Slavs (Great Russians, White Russians, and Ukrainians); Sklaveni, or South Slavs (Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bosnians, and Bulgarians) and Venedi, or West Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Wends).

Learn more about: The Scythian Deer and the Aryan/Iranian roots of the Scythian civilization

Photo 2: The Scythian's were neighbours to the Parthian Empire