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Can you give more details on this? I speak Russian and not sure I follow the idea here. There are no articles in Russian. Ukraine name in Russian is Украина. Is
by para_parolu 5y ago
Can you give more details on this? I speak Russian and not sure I follow the idea here. There are no articles in Russian.
Ukraine name in Russian is Украина.
Is it because Russia use “the Ukraine” in English documents?
- splintercell 5y agoIt’s not related to the language. It’s related to culture. Ukraine in Russian means frontier or borderlands. Calling it Ukraine simply means calling it a name. Calling it the Ukraine implies they’re calling it the frontier (of Russia). It makes zero sense in the English language. But it’s just a micro resistance by a small country against a bigger dominant superpower and culture next to it.