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Anyway, we have used Kiev in English for years, and I now learn i am a Bad Putin feon if i carry on...seriously do you use Pekin,Peking, Beijing or BJUkrainians are Eastern slavs so are Russians and Belrussians, Polish Czech and slovak are Western slavs, the rest are southern Bulgaria former Yugoslavia
Unless you are a Gypsie or Jew which have minorities in Slav countries you are a Slav, not talking about some small cases of somebody that had Italian, German etc parents.
Also there is Muslim slavs, they are slavs but have Muslim faith not the same as Jews who are ethnically Jewish in slavic countries. Ofcourse there would be some but mainly not
As the folk tale that gets told to children goes, there were 3 brothers one stayed, one went west and one went east. Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia.
In a simplified way all slavs are thought to come from the same people and the tribes went east west and south in Europe, so Ukrainians are Ukranians, Russians are Russians, Serbs are Serbs but all from the Slavic language family and dna have similar markers
You can buy great
"I love Bj "caps there btw.?
In my opinion, this is pedantic and probably used to confuse people who have associated Kiev with Russian leaders of USSR for the last century.
As our narrative is now to say it is completely different.
Who really cares really?