
Andrey Kurkov: Putin's attack on Ukraine's identity
The Interview
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Is There Any Ethnic Russians in Ukraine?
Kirkov: Putin wants to de legitimize the very idea of a ucranian nation. He says that had not lenin given ucrane too much of a sense identity within us, there would be no modern ukraine. I just wonder whether you feel there are any people inside the nation state of ukraine who would identify with putin's version of history. Kirkov: Me iam one of probably seven or eight millions of ethnic russians. And they are two different people with two different mentalities, opposite mentalities.
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