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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...

Ukraine must win the war against Russia in order to ensure that a message is sent to the world that there is nothing to gain from invading other nations, the Prime Minister of Finland said on Tuesday. Speaking with journalist Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Prime Minister Sanna Marin explained that while she doesn't know when the war will end, "we have to make sure than when it ends Ukrainians win."

When Hitler was running out of resources, because he outspent Germany's future, his action was to attack Poland. So it makes me wonder if the reason for the war is that West has outspent its future and it wants the wealth of Russia to try and keep going. Ukraine has an estimated $13 trillion in mineral wealth. Russia probably has hundreds of trillions in mineral stored in the lands that it isn't making use of, for whatever reason it has chosen to not take advantage of.