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7 things to understand about contemporary Ukraine | Ep. 118

Explaining Ukraine

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The Differences Between Russian and Ukrainian Language

Each city, for example, Odessa is kind of a world apart, right? And Lviv is a very specific, you will never confuse Lviv and Odessa or Harkif or Nipro or the Parisia. They are very different, or Vinnytse, very different with very specific sense of their regional identity. The second important element is the language. It's something that people outside of Ukraine start understanding a little bit, but maybe not still not ideally. As an example, Russians, when we speak in Ukrainian, they don't understand much, but if we hear you build a Russian stock, so we understand a lot.

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