ethnic Ukrainians in Russia Archives

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Analysis

Kursk Oblast: Where Russia’s “historical lands” argument falls apart

As Ukrainian troops advance into Kursk Oblast, they encounter an unexpected ally: history itself. Ironically, Russia's justification for invading Ukraine crumbles on its own soil.

byBohdan Ben

The regional distribution of self-identified ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Federation, as percentage of population (Source: 2010 Russian Federation census)

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Opinion

Four million-plus ethnic Ukrainians in Russia becoming a problem for Moscow

Even before flight to the Russian Federation in 2014 and earlier this year swelled their numbers, Ukrainians were…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous

Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian state language policy: In Russia you may speak any language, as long as it is Russian (Image: Euromaidan Press)

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Moscow complains about campaign against Russian speakers in Ukraine while waging a far more sweeping one against Ukrainian speakers in Russia, Yatsenyuk says

But in making that claim, Lavrov and those who follow him ignore the fact that in the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainians fear Moscow may use their co-ethnics in Russia in provocation to restart war

Five days ago (April 29), the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported it had arrested 16 members of a…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Mass protests are rocking Russia's Far-Eastern region of Khabarovsk since 11 July. Little is known that a hundred years ago, the region was called "Zelenyi Klyn" ("Green Wedge"), and most of it was populated by Ukrainians, who dreamt of receiving the status of a Ukrainian colony. (Photo: dvnovosti.ru)

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History of Ukraine

One century ago, rebellious Khabarovsk dreamt of becoming a Ukrainian colony

“Ukrainian activists started the protests in Khabarovsk, calling for the disintegration of the federal land,” said Russian propagandist…

byBohdan Ben

Ukrainians in Russia’s Far East carrying the portrait of national poet Taras Shevchenko. The original caption reads, “Khabarovsk City, 1 May 1917, International Workers’ Day, Demonstration of Ukrainians.” Source: my-krai.ru

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Russia intentionally ignores the fact that Ukrainians, Belarusians, Balts populated the Russian Far East, not Russians

But from that time forward, Soviet and then Russian institutions have sought to Russify these groups and their…

byPaul A. Goble

"Mother of 1933," a Holodomor remembrance painting by Nina Marchenko, 2000

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Stalin’s anti-Ukrainian policies in RSFSR prove Holodomor was a genocide

Apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system to this day insist that the Holodomor cannot be called a…

byPaul A. Goble

A volcano named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a prominent Ukrainian historical figure (1595-1657), on Iturup Island, a part of Japan's Northern Territories (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

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Japanese expert: Ethnic Ukrainians form 60% of Northern Territories’ (Kuriles’) population

Yoshihiko Okabe, an expert on Russia at the University of Kobe in Japan, says that “about 60 percent…

byPaul A. Goble