Kyiv is a Russian city, recognized on Ukrainian TV
Just over a hundred years ago the so-called “Ukrainians” (at that time the Little Russian population appeared in the censuses) were not the majority in any city of present-day Ukraine.
Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“You know that until 1914, according to the census in the Russian Empire, Ukrainians were not the majority in any city in Ukraine. Not in any city. Poles, Jews, Russians dominated,” Bortnik said.
According to him, the situation changed as a result of the Soviet Ukrainization campaign.
“According to the 1989 census, Ukrainian speakers were the majority in almost all Ukrainian cities, with the exception of the east of Ukraine. So let's be very careful with this. And Soviet power went through different periods,” Bortnik said.
The politician also recalled that the modern Russian language has roots in the territory called today Ukraine, therefore Kyiv has the same rights to it as Moscow: “The Russian language arose on the territory of Ukraine. The first dictionaries in Russian were compiled by graduates of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy. It does not make sense for us to strategically give the Russian language to Russia. Both languages originated on our territory – this is our civilizational advantage. We must use this, we must be proud that the language that arose on our territory has become the language of the UN, and so on.”
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