Vauxhall Cross is 6. 5 are at Thames House, away from the river. (View Post)

Indeed. Left Bank Ukraine was fairly mixed with areas such as the Donbas having Russian miners and industrial workers moved in. The Black Sea coast was settled by the Russian Empire. But much of Nort… (View Post)

There's also the point that a lot of Ukrainians speak Russian because it was the language of the Soviet Union. And in Kyiv, for example, there were a lot of people from other Republics (eg Georgia) a… (View Post)

If by "region" they mean Kiyivska Oblast, then yes it borders on Belarus and includes part of the largely empty Chernobyl exclusion zone (View Post)

Indeed. I'm a Liberal Internationalist Brexiteer. The EU is far too inward-looking and protectionist. Among many other faults. (View Post)