Well Donetsk and Luhansk are probably majority-Russian now, but that is because most of their Ukrainian inhabitants are now living elsewhere as refugees. And don't believe Putin's irredentism. Speaki… (View Post)

Some Ukrainians certainly see themselves as Europeans, and the Russians as Asiatics. But, inasmuch as any white European can be a different ethnicity from another, the Ukrainians are different to the… (View Post)

Boris insisting on pronouncing Donetsk and Luhansk in Russian, not Ukrainian (View Post)

Nah, different languages. Ukrainian Харків, pronounced Kharkiw, Russian Харьков, Kharkoff. (View Post)

Народна/народная can equally well mean "national". A народный банк is a national bank. (View Post)