Russia (bbabo.net), - Chairman of the Russian Historical Society (RIO) Sergei Naryshkin called the accession of Ukraine to Russia a civilizational choice based on the unity of faith, language and historical path.
"Throughout their thousand-year history, Russians and Ukrainians remain one people," he said, opening a scientific conference dedicated to the study of the history of Ukraine and timed to coincide with the 368th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada. The head of RIO referred to the program article of Russian President Vladimir Putin "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians."
"After the Commonwealth began a policy of forced Latinization and catalyzation, many Cossacks rose up in arms to defend their culture and their faith," Naryshkin recalled the historical upheavals of those events. The Cossacks demanded from the Polish king, in modern terms, a special status. But the Poles did not make any concessions, and then the Cossacks turned to Moscow for protection.
Reflecting on the common historical space of the two peoples, the head of RIO focused his special attention on the Soviet period of the existence of the neighboring state. In particular, the role played by the Bolshevik leaders in the formation of Ukrainian statehood, whose monuments are being destroyed today in Ukraine. "This idea belonged entirely to Moscow and was put into practice, meeting opposition on the ground. When the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic was proclaimed in early 1918, Lenin persistently urged its leaders not to be part of the RSFSR. And on March 15 of the same year, the Central Committee of the party decided to send to the Ukrainian Congress of Soviets of delegates, including those from Donetsk, in order to create one government for the whole of Ukraine," he stressed. "Unlike the nationalist governments that appeared in dozens during the Civil War, but held only on the bayonets of the interventionists, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic acquired international legitimacy, became one of the founders of the USSR, and later, after the Second World War, at the urgent request of the Soviet leadership, received the right to vote in the UN.
According to Sergei Naryshkin, modern Russia has done a lot for Ukraine to become an independent state. "And we, of course, are maximally interested in good-neighbourliness with it, in such close, intensive and mutually beneficial relations as are possible between two parts of one people," he said.
At the conference, they also turned to the era of Ancient Russia, which for many years has been the subject of fierce discussions, unfortunately, not only scientific ones.
"Our common heritage constantly requires an update of optics. Kievan Rus remains the subject of discussion, and much is interpreted differently not only because of the possible, but sometimes obvious difference in ideological positions, political attitudes. But above all, because this material itself is extremely complex and ambiguous. After all, in the picture of the author of "The Tale of Bygone Years" there is not only the Russian land and its rulers, but also separate groups of Slavic tribes," Nikolai Makarov, director of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, formulated the problem, emphasizing that scientists are faced with the task of finding a language and approaches for this topic to make it purely scientific. He recalled that the very name "Kievan Rus", which united many peoples living in this territory, became canonical only in Soviet times.
"Fortress of spirit to you, but courage to you," Naryshkin supported the Ukrainian historian
"After studying cities, settlements and mounds, we see that Ancient Russia formed a single material culture: everyday life, dwellings, jewelry, clothing, lifestyle," he concluded.
The Russian archaeologist was supported by a colleague from Ukraine. “When our archaeologists were too dispersed, showing some special, specific curls in the archaeological finds of Vladimir, Suzdal, Novgorod and Kiev, I suggested that they spread the excavated things on the table, mix them up and try to sort them out by city,” the honorary director of the Institute told a curious story Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences Petro Tolochko. - It did not work out."
The historian admitted that our common past is not very honored in Ukraine. One of the provisions of the law on the prohibition of the Russian language in the media has just come into force. "It is not even an hour that it will be banned in scientific publications. It is very sad, because we are two peoples who came out of a single Dnieper font. Russia is a common country and a single people," the Ukrainian academician is convinced. According to him, there is no need to talk about the Ukrainian identity of the 17th century. "Ukraine as a political entity and ethnic nation was formed mainly in the Soviet era," he said.Tolochko said that, despite the interrupted official scientific contacts, scientists with great difficulty, but still manage to conduct joint research. One example: the study of the traces of an ancient man with the team of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Derevyanko.
"Fortress of spirit to you and will, and courage to you not to occupy", - supported the Ukrainian historian Sergey Naryshkin.
And on the part of Russian scientists, there is great interest in the history of the neighboring country. The GU is preparing a textbook on the history of the territories where modern Ukraine is located. Scientific director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Chubaryan said that a meeting of young historians of Russia, Ukraine and Poland would be held. According to the scientist, wider formats of meetings with participants from different countries will help to establish an interrupted dialogue between Russians and Ukrainians. "This year there will also be a big conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the USSR. It is impossible to discuss this date without Ukrainian colleagues," he said.
And a group of specialists led by the famous historian of Ukraine Tatyana Tairova are conducting research to find the grave of Bogdan Khmelnitsky.
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