The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine declared Alexander Pushkin a Ukrainian
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said that from now on he will consider the poet Alexander Pushkin a Ukrainian. The official wrote about this on his Twitter, explaining that, thus, he was protesting against the words of Vladimir Putin, who called the Russian Queen of France Anna, the daughter of the Kyiv prince Yaroslav.
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“The problem is not even that Russia is trying to “appropriate” Anna Yaroslavna, but that it really considers Anna of Kyiv to be Russian. I will consider Pushkin a Ukrainian. After all, Ukrainian Odessa and Crimea repeatedly inspired his creative genius,” Klimkin wrote.
The day before, during a visit to Paris, President Putin said that the history of Russia’s relations with France dates back to the times of Kievan Rus, when the daughter of Prince Yaroslav Anna became the French queen.
Note that before reigning in Kyiv, Yaroslav was also the prince of Rostov and Novgorod, and his father, Vladimir Svyatoslavovich, seized power in Kyiv, being the prince of Novgorod.
The official Ukrainian interpretation of history is that Kievan Rus was, in fact, “Rus-Ukraine,” and subsequently “Asian Muscovy stole the name from European Rus.”
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