Russian Orthodox Patriarch Hews to Kremlin Propaganda Line on Ukraine Identity The religious leader, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, echoes Kremlin claims that Ukraine is not really a separate country from Russia.
Are Ukrainians and Russians ethnically the same people? There are similarities – but also many differences that separate them. Rhetoric like Kirill’s glosses over the latter and ignores how Ukrainians see themselves, a defining element of ethnicity., ethnicity is “a large group of people with a shared culture, language, history, set of traditions, etc., or the fact of belonging to one of these groups.”“Ethnic identity is shaped by both ethnic affiliation and ethnic attribution.
in an interview with the independent Russian news site Meduza, based in Latvia. "Then it disappears, then it is used again, but it has been in constant use since the Cossack times, that is, from the 16th-17th centuries."Matthew Lenoe said that both Russians and Ukrainians have made mythical claims about their past. But Lenoe noted that Ukraine’s emergence as a nation remains a fact, even if recent:
“Mass Ukrainian nationalism emerged out of the traumas of the 20th century. Like Ukraine, there are plenty of states in Europe now that don’t have a long tradition of statehood.Among the speakers of Ukrainian and in the lands now comprising Ukraine, there were many different experiences. They belonged at times to different states and realms.
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