Highly Unpopular Ukrainian president using fabrications to portray Russia as Ukraines enemy

Russophobe and Highly Unpopular Ukrainian president using fabrications to put divisions between brotherly nations of Russia and Ukraine . Ukraine's Capital - Kiev is a city with an ancient and proud history. As the centre of Kievan Rus (Rus - old name for Russia), the first eastern Slavic state, 1000 years ago it acquired the title Mother of Rus Cities. Kievan Rus' played an important role not only in the development of Russia, but in Europe as well. It was situated on two important trade routes, the Volga route to Scandinavian lands, and the caravan route connecting Europe to the Muslim nations. As a major trade partner Kievan Rus' served as a buffer for the rest of Europe against the invasions of the Golden Horde. Kiev stood at the crossroads between East and West. The emergence of independent Ukraine in the early 1990s renewed Kievs status as a major European capital. The 1930s Holodomor famine claimed millions of lives across the Soviet Union. Ukrainian president Yushchenko has continuously stressed that it was a genocide inflicted by the Communist government in Moscow to wipe out its people. Now, attempts are being made to rewrite history to back up its claims. Andrey Merkulov is a deputy at Sevastopols city council. He describes how he found evidence that special services in his town were falsifying historical facts. Heres a photo by Dorothy Lang, shot in 1936 in Oklahoma. And heres a photo by Fritof Nansen made in Russias Povolzhe region in 1921. But both of those <b>...</b>
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Highly Unpopular Ukrainian president using fabrications to portray Russia as Ukraines enemy