Posted on 03/13/2023 3:58:53 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Russian officials railed against Ukraine’s talk of changing Russia’s official name to Muscovy, after a Ukrainian petition regarding a potential name change garnered 25,000 signatures.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly instructed Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal to “carefully” consider renaming Russia to Muscovy, accounting for consequences under international law and whether it was possible in historical and cultural contexts.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement posted to Telegram on Saturday that Zelensky is trying to create an “anti-Russia Ukraine.”
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After all, the Rus were Ukrainian, not Muscovian. If Russia wants to use that as an excuse to claim the achievements of the Kievan Rus, what better way to chop their claims off at the knees.
Yes! No more Russian Bear. Now it’s Muscovy Duck.
Ukraine has been trying to do that since the coup and installation of Poroshenko...the hater of everything Russian.
What a stupid stunt. Ukraine’s new name could be parking lot in Russian.
Long live Mother Russia. Down with globohomo Zelenskyy.
That does cut through a whole lot of bs in one slash
Adult children are running the world.
Mebe we should name whats left of the the Uke’s, after Russia re-claims what is theirs, The Armpit of NATO
Well,we can start here. Henceforth, anything to do with the political entity ruled by Putin will be referred to as Muscow or Muscovite.
Zelensky is trying to create “an anti-Russia Ukraine”! Like Ukrainians need another incentive!
Yes!!!
The original Rus were Scandinavians using the river system to trade from the Baltic to the Middle East. Moscovy was Slavs, with a not inconsiderable admixture of Mongols.
I love it!
aren’t putin and russia ALWAYS fuming LOL
To propose this, he must think that virtually the entire world and the march of history is on his side. The praise of his fellow one-worlders has gone to his head.
Meanwhile brutis er Xi is meeting with zelenski soon. His message “I pull this string and my puppet in DC gets the message.
Sticks and stones...
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