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https://www.v-stetsyuk.name/en/NorthCauc.html Ukrainian unorthodox self-taught linguist's site. He's interested in the distant past of languages and their geographical distribution, and has two methodologies: -Translating present-day lexical distance between languages to the geographical distance between their ancestors within small areas in the distant past. Thus he argues that what would later become language families and collections of families were once neighbors occupying regions such as the Caucasus, and, of course, Ukraine&Belarus. -Claiming past distributions of languages far beyond their present range through toponymic evidence. In both cases he supplements these with historical and other kinds of evidence, but all things considered his claims are probably flimsy and he ignores contradicting evidence and more plausible alternative explanations. Nonetheless, some articles are entertaining to read just for their value as stories with characters and conflict, most notably this one: https://www.v-stetsyuk.name/en/Siberia.html In which he narrates an epic eastward migration of Anglo-Saxons to Siberia preceding and running away from Russia's arrival, tying them to historical peoples in the area, speculating on their possible contact with Western navigators and concluding with their assimilation into the Ainu. And he has several more episodes of this saga.