Ukranian History, Russian History, in Terms of Imperialism

The problem of russia is that an is not only a colony for her, but it is a kind of a head of the empire. So without ukrane, russia feels as a kind of headless empire. Therefore, we would try to describe ukranian history in terms of imperialism and colonialism. It's like a colony which became an empire tries to tries to reconquer its very core. But this is not a colonialism. In this, i would say, classic, classical definition,. But when we look in recent history, i mean, the nineteenth century, it was akind of a colony with many bands, with many er rights. We were deprived of many rights