Ukrainian historian: “Since Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church, we will preserve his name in Kyiv”
In Soviet times, negligible people spoke Ukrainian in Kyiv - mostly visiting peasants and some humanities intellectuals. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Ukrainian historian Alexei Sokirko stated this in an interview with Kraina magazine. According to him, today the Ukrainian capital “threw off the Soviet tarpaulin and became expressively Ukrainian.” “First of all, in terms of language. I…