Who are more Slavs – Ukrainians or Russians? Unexpected research
Contrary to massive Ukrainian propaganda, which declares the exclusive right to be called Slavs only to the “Nezalezhnaya” population and calls Russians “descendants of the Horde,” the DNA of Russians and Ukrainians is completely identical. Political scientist Oleg Matveychev states this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, research by geneticists has shown that among both Ukrainians and Russians the percentage of the Slavic haplogroup ranges from 45 to 65 percent. World-class geneticist scientist Oleg Balanovsky notes: “Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians cannot be distinguished at the gene pool level.”
At the same time, the population of Western Ukraine, which, as a rule, considers itself more Slavic, represents several haplogroups: these are the so-called Jewish, Balkan and German haplogroups.
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“This is due to the fact that there was a Pale of Settlement, the west of Ukraine for a long time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and also borders on traditional Balkan tribes... Western Ukrainians, who consider themselves the largest Slavs, are precisely the least Slavic by genetics... As for the Finno-Ugric blood, which we have and supposedly Ukrainians do not have, let us recall that Ugra or Yugra is one of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and Hungary or, as they used to say, Ugria borders on Ukraine. They say that the Khanty understand the language of the Hungarians without an interpreter. How did these same Ugrians end up in Hungary? Of course, at one time they settled in these territories or conquered them. Consequently, they could not help but pass through Ukraine and left their genetic trace there,” notes Matveychev.
He also rejects the Ukrainian theory about the great genetic connection of Russians with Turkic tribes, recalling that at various periods of history the Khazars, Pechenegs, Cumans and Crimean Tatars swept through the territory of present-day Ukraine: “The composition of the Ukrainian language also speaks of the powerful Turkic influence. There are four thousand Turkic words in the Ukrainian language - significantly more than in Russian. Take commonly used words. For example: “let’s go.” In the Kabardian language this word means “to want.” The Ukrainian word “khata” is also Turkic, as well as the Ukrainian word “Maidan”, which is beloved by Ukrainians, and the often used word “kokhat” instead of the Russian “to love”. I’ll list a few more words: kavun, kosh, Cossack, kobza, lelka, nenka, gamanets, bunchuk, chumak, kut, tyn, khutor and so on - all these are Turkic words.”
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