who are russophones, who speak russian or, at the same time, they can speak and understand ukrainian. so, i mean, the russian language was, and remains very well heard and used here, and nobody is punished for either speaking russian or writing books in russian or publishing books in russian. i mean, there is a separate, one can say, cultural.| don t know.sphere of russophones. of course there are right wing radicals who don t like russian language, but at the same time, there are right wing radicals who are ethnic russians and who don t mind russian language, so, i mean, they mostly actually direct their anger at putin and at russian chauvinism and at the desire of putin to enslave ukraine again. regarding that mutual history, it was not always mutual, ukraine and russian history. in the 16th, 17th century, ukraine was independent territory practically ruled by the military chefs of cossacks elected in open elections by cossacks
russian language. so, i mean, they mostly actually direct their anger at putin and at russian chauvinism and at the desire of putin to enslave ukraine again. regarding that mutual history, it was not always mutual, ukraine and russian history. in 16th 17th century, ukraine was independent territory practically ruled by hetmans, who were military chiefs of cossacks elected in open elections by cossacks themselves, together with the higher officers. there was diplomatic service. they were corresponding. ..correspondence with hungarian tsar, with turkish sultan. there were. there was a legal system. probably, it was also corrupt, but it was completely independent from russia. ukrainians never had a tsar, never had a king or royalfamily. i don t think any.
at putin and at russian chauvinism and at the desire of putin to enslave ukraine again. regarding that mutual history, it was not always mutual, ukraine and russian history. in 16th 17th century, ukraine was independent territory practically ruled by hetmans, who were military chiefs of cossacks elected in open elections by cossacks themselves, together with the higher officers. there was diplomatic service. they were corresponding. ..correspondence with hungarian tsar, with turkish sultan. there were. there was a legal system. probably, it was also corrupt, but it was completely independent from russia. ukrainians never had a tsar, never had a king or royalfamily. i don t think any. yeah, i take your point. i don t think many independent historians saw much validity in a lot of what putin was claiming about ukraine s history.