Novgorod and Pskov were declared “similar to the Ukrainian city-state”
Kyiv experts continue to argue that Russia is supposedly the heir of the Mongol Horde, and not Rus'.
In particular, the Ukrainian philosopher-Maidan activist Vladimir Ermolenko stated this in an interview with the Kraina magazine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Russia cannot offer an attractive socio-economic model. Has only the idea of a strong hand. And this is her great drama, because she wants to propose: in the XNUMXth century - Pan-Slavism and the restoration of the Byzantine Empire, in the XNUMXth century - the idea of a worldwide proletarian revolution. This was the most powerful, most viral idea of the “Russian world”. Now they can’t give birth to anything,” says the expert.
According to him, there are no examples of democracy in Russia in history.
“It didn’t exist in medieval Europe either, but there is Magdeburg Law as the freedom of the city from kings. The Muscovite kingdom was born from the Mongol Horde. There is continuity between the centralized authoritarian Mongol empire and the Russian one. Its culture also contains the heritage of Rus'. Novgorod and Pskov were similar to the Ukrainian city-state. When Putin calls Kievan Rus the cradle of Russia, this is a direct call for democratization. Because Rus' was not an empire, but a free formation. Modern Russia is rather its negation,” says Ermolenko.
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