Ukraine is slowly becoming more important than russian. The young people who say nowt they prefer ukranian to russian. But it's been very slow. And if anythin like what makes eucranians a bit different, then, let's say americans, and for that matter, russians, is that they are by lingual, and they will code switch and iso. It's not so much like the ucranian language. I mean, they have the uCranian language, and that does make them differentIt has a beautiful literary tradition, and it's a beautiful spoken language. They also have a capacity which the russ
Vladimir Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. He’s wrong.
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