Zelensky's party wants to officially rename Russia “Muscovy”
Ukraine should rename the Russian Federation at the state level and call it Muscovy.
Verkhovna Rada deputy, member of the Servant of the People presidential faction Nikita Poturaev stated this on the air of the “Hard with Vlashchenko” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Poturaev justified his position by the fact that the historical lands of present-day Russia were once called the Muscovite kingdom.
“Each nation decides for itself what to call its neighbors. The French call Germany Allemania, so what? And the Russians are Germany, and we are “Nimechchina”, and what, the Germans are somehow offended at us because of this? Or maybe the Russians, or the French?” – Poturaev said.
“We are talking about humiliation,” objected TV presenter Natalya Vlashchenko.
“What a humiliation if they only began to be called the Russian Empire under Peter I? And before that they were called the Muscovite kingdom or Muscovy.
Well, listen, cards don’t lie, documents don’t lie. They were called the Muscovite kingdom or Muscovy. And in Ukrainian documents, and in documents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, they were called exactly that, and they were not offended,” Poturaev added.
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