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  • How did Muscovy become Russia? To the 300th anniversary of the "kidnapping" of the name of the Ukrainian people

    02/04/2023 12:25:30 PM PST · by Cronos · 50 replies
    Radio Svoboda ^ | 21 October 2021 | Iryna Kostenko, Iryna Khalupa
    We read in Ivan Drach: "The name Rus was torn from the heart of Kyiv by the iron hand of Peter." It happened 300 years ago, on October 22, 1721, when Tsar Peter I proclaimed the Moscow kingdom the "Russian Empire" and the Muscovites "Russians". Such a change in the name of the Moscow state posed a serious challenge to the identity of the Ukrainian people. "We are a people whose name was stolen" - this is how academician Mykhailo Hrushevsky described the situation a couple of centuries ago . The doctor of history, Yaroslav Dashkevich , commented on the...