• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Kyiv (482ce) predates Russia, the Soviet Union and Ukraine as a whole and is older than most of its neighbors.

    Most of Russian culture is an outflow of kyivan influence not the other way round, ie. Most slavic locals are ethnically and historically kyivan not Russian.