Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ukraine is older than Russia

Or the USSR

Yet, historically, Crimea and some parts of eastern Ukraine weren't part of Ukraine.
So, yes, PP is right somewhat, that current borders of Ukraine are artificial to a degree, for example, Crimea was transferred by USSR government from Republic of Russia to the Republic of Ukraine in 1954, it was internal administrative move within one country.

[twitter] Ukraine is fairly ‘young’ in the sense that before this century it was only mentioned in the context of USSR or Russia. [/twitter]
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