For Vladimir Putin, Ukraine is a totally different ball game compared to Baltic states or Central Asian nations. Ukraine shares close historic, cultural and geopolitical links to Moscow
in 2005, when Ukraine’s anti-Russian pro-EU Orange Revolution was raging across the country.
In 2008, Russia even attacked Georgia, a former Soviet republic, which became an independent state three decades ago. Moscow openly backed South Ossetians and Abkhazians, who rebelled against Tbilisi’s central authority. Since then, South Ossetia and Abkhazia have remainedPutin pursues a similar policy to Moscow’s Georgia conduct, backing anti-Kiev Russian separatists when it comes to Ukraine.
Rurik stands in the middle a bronze monument called Millennium of Russia in the Novgorod Kremlin. It celebrates Rurik's arrival to Novgorod as the starting point of Russia Following Rurik, his successors embraced Orthodox Christianity under Byzantine influence, partly because Orthodox Slavs had largely populated their territories. As a result, Slavism and Orthodox Christianity have become the two dominant elements of the Russian identity.
Head of the separatist pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin attends a news conference in Donetsk, Ukraine. Despite Putin’s displeasure of the fact that many Russians should live under other successor states to the Soviets after the collapse of the communist state, he has not made it a big issue with them as long as they don’t go against Moscow’s political objectives like Ukraine has done since 2005.
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