In July 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin released a 5,000-word article asserting that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people – a single whole.” Referencing 9th Century Kyivan Rus’, he declared that Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians are all descendants, “bound together by one language.” Now more than 1,000 years later, he argued that “true sovereignty of...
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