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[Mnementh]

mai said:

Mnementh said:

That's not true. The first Ukrainian nation existed 1917. Without crimea naurally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People's_Republic

Well, it took them some 20 years more, but they are following footsteps of the predecessor pretty closely :D Finding preceding states of "Ukraine" is really depends on how desperate you want to be, if I'm not mistaken they track down their history until the Kievan Rus', no less. Bastards!

The Kievan Rus is no predecessor for the Ukraine. It has no continual development into the modern Ukraine. The Kievan Rus on the other hand is the predecessor of modern Russia. So the roots of Russia are in Kiev? Actually the Kievian Rus started to have Nowgorod as capital, the southern part was later conquered.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Kievan_Rus_en.jpg