
7 things to understand about contemporary Ukraine | Ep. 118
Explaining Ukraine
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The Importance of Russian Speaking Minority
Everybody here speaks Russian. Almost everybody here speaks Ukrainian. So, if you think we should be avoided when you think about languages in Ukraine, the first thing is that you perceive this language group as a homogeneous group. People like us, for example, we were born and raised rather in the Russian speaking family, but now we mostly speak Ukrainian, but we can switch into Russian. And that's it. Basically, there is no such thing. With Russian, this is not a language of a minority, it is an imperial language. So a language of empire, which was here for a couple of centuries, and the direct result of this recification and the will of the Russia empire to
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