Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine and ex-deputy of the Rada Svyatoslav Piskun said that President Vladimir Zelensky should think about "the revival of Kievan Rus." He made a corresponding statement on the air of the Nash TV channel.
“We will say that Muscovy is Kievan Rus,” said the former parliamentarian.
He justified his unusual proposal by the fact that the territory of Moscow "was mastered under the Kiev prince Yuri Dolgoruky."
Earlier, the former adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, Alexei Arestovich, said that Ukraine should be renamed Rus-Ukraine. According to him, this would be a more correct name, since in reality Ukrainians are Russians.
In addition, according to Arestovich, the conflict between Moscow and Kiev should be called a "Russian-Russian" war.
In response, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, proposed her own version of a new name for the Ukrainian state.
In the 12th century, Kievan Rus was divided into independent principalities, while for some time Kiev continued to be considered the main city. Unification processes began in the 13th century, but they were interrupted by the Mongol invasion. After the weakening of the power of Kiev and the constant internecine wars, attempts to unite intensified. Prince Ivan III completed the unification of Russian lands around Moscow in the 15th century.
Muscovy is the name of the Russian state in Western sources, used from the 15th to the beginning of the 18th century. Various researchers believe that the use of the term was facilitated by Polish-Lithuanian propaganda, which deliberately preserved the terminology of feudal fragmentation.
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