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...