🇺🇦 How Putin Weaponises History
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
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Is Russia a Great Power With a Right to Divorce?
The way in which our vladiputon has referred to ukranian history has really not been about ukraine at all, but about russia and about its needsstead of explain. So if we think back to a sort of mediaeval history, an even further back, soof the history of kian rus, very quickly, hiven ruse is a point of great dispute in terms of the air. Both claim the legacy of ofkivan ruse am and its portant to ucranian nationhood because it gives this sense of ah of statehood that goes back many centuries. But it's important, as well, to russian ideas of empire
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