Category Russia

March 14, 2014 / Posted in  Church history, Russia, Ukraine

Russophiles and those terrified of alienating the Big Russian Bear in 2013, after the heart of the former Soviet Empire survived the fall of the Berlin Wall and later dismemberment, claim that the nation known as the Ukraine has always been a part of Russia. This is a lie.

The Ukraine has been inhabited for at least forty four thousand years.¹ The horse was first domesticated in the Ukraine.²

Historical map of Kievan Rus’ and territory of Ukraine last 20 years of the state 1220–1240

All evidence points to the Ukraine as the primer site of the origins of the Proto-Indo-European language family,³ and it was the birthplace of what became, later, the medieval state of Kievan Rus (was known as the “land of the Rus'” (Old East Slavic: Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ, from the ethnonym Рѹ́сь; Greek: Ῥώς; Arabi...