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Natural is the far side of unnatural."the Ukraine" seems just much more natural to me than "Ukraine"
After all, when was the first time you'd heard the word "the Ukraine"? I guess it was not so long ago. Ukraine hasn't got its own history or more exactly it has, but it's laughably short. So, for my ear, all the whimsical things that the Ukarinian government invent instead of making themselves useful do not seem too natural. Let's take their latest official statemet for instance:
Все империи распадаются, как это было с Римской империей. Поэтому российская империя тоже распадется, но еще не скоро.
All empires disintegrate, the way it happened with the Roman Empire. So the Russian Empire is also going to fall apart, though not too soon.
"Excursuses into history and prediction of that kind look incongruous for a diplomat of such a high rank and are unacceptable for Russian-Ukrainian relations." Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs say.
"If this paranoid raving of a top Ukrainian official is true, then, in full accordance with rules of civilized diplomacy, this Mr. Buteiko should either immediately resign by the decision of the Ukrainian president, or take his own decision to quit civilized politics, like a shot, joining marginals who write their slogans on fences." says Valery Tursunov, a well-known expert on post-Soviet states. Then he points out as follows:
"Anton Buteiko and his poorly educated inspirers have a short memory. If they had got at least satisfactory marks at the Soviet schools they went to, they would know that the present-day Ukraine is entirely an offspring of an empire and itself an empire, created by Stalin and Khrushchev, who annexed to it Polonized Galicia in 1939, Carpathian Rus in 1945, and Russian Crimea in 1954. What then can one say about Brezhnev and his Dneprodzerzhinsk-based clan who pumped ‘imperial’ money from all over the USSR into Ukraine? If Buteiko, raving about disintegration of empires, longs for the death of his Mother Ukraine, it is his personal problem. Yet what does fraternal Ukraine have to do with this? The paranoid raving that comes from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry indicates a deep moral and professional dissolution of the Ukrainian elite. If the Ukrainian elite still preserves some remnants of intellectual conscience, it should discard such discredited diplomats as Buteiko."
So I think the Ukrainian governers must stop making doo-doo in the pants. first.
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