~ UKRAINE  id+ BORDERLANDS
           in ukr UKRAINA
           in sp  UCRANIA
  THE IDEA IN THE WORD UKRAINE
  CONVEYS CONCEPTS OF  " NO MAN'S LAND "
  ukr U and KRAI    = BORDER and COUNTRY
            KRAI      TO CUT  AREA  ZONE
  ukr       RUS       ANCIENT NAME FOR UKRAINE
                      taken up by
                      MOSCOW or MOSCO or MUSCOVY
            RUSIN     A SLAV
  lat       RUTHENI   same
            RUTHENIA  ancient NAME FOR UKRAINE and
                      CURRENT NAME FOR WESTERN UKRAINE
  Finnish   RUOTSI    RUSSIAN
  note      RUS       may relate to ROSE   note
                      RED COLOR as in
  sp        COLORADO  RED or alt perhaps
  ukr       ROS       DEW
  sc> biol> MODERN EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE REGION
      OF UKRAINE IS PERHAPS THE SITE OF ORIGIN OF
  INDOEUROPEAN LANGUAGES WHICH MAY BE RELATED TO
  THE DOMESTICATION OF THE HORSE WHICH FACILITATED
  THE CONQUEST OF POPULATIONS TO THE EAST SOUTH AND WEST
  hx> AS TURKISH  POLISH  and MUSCOVITE DESPOTISM GREW
      USHERED BY AUTOCRATIC ROYAL REGIMES
  UKRAINE BECAME A REFUGE TO THOSE ESCAPING OPPRESSION
  IN A PEJORATIVE SENSE IT WAS CALLED
  THE LAND OF THE     " RUNAWAY SERFS AND ADVENTURERS" or
  in a positive sense " LAND OF COSSACKS "
  and implicitly THE LAND OF "FREE MEN"   or COSSACKS
  similar ideas underscore the terms GAUCHO or COWBOY
  perhaps UKRAINE preceded the "WILD WEST" as it offered
  refuge to POLES  JEWS  GERMANS  LITHUANIANS
            TATARS and others who JOINED WITH NATIVE
  SLAVIC PEOPLE TO RESIST THE OPPRESSION BY
  FEUDAL LORDS INCLUDING THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
  POLISH NOBILITY  LITHUANIAN GENTRY  MUSCOVITE AUTOCRATS
  TATAR KHANS and TURKISH SULTANS
  hx> note that even John SMITH [#] of POCAHONTAS [#] fame
      found refuge in UKRAINE from his TURKISH CAPTORS
  lit+ regarding the above an interesting account
       is given by Anne APPELBAUM [#]
       "Between East and West" Pantheon 1994
  note FOR NEARLY 2000 YEARS THE NATIONAL SEAL OF UKRAINE IS
       THE TRIDENT WHICH WAS REINTRODUCED IN 1991
  WHEN UKRAINE ONCE AGAIN BECAME INDEPENDENT
  AFTER THE IMPLOSION OF THE USSR
  for more see> MOSCOVY  RUSSIA and USSR       sug> NOVGOROD
  note  IMPERIAL RUSSIA or the EMPIRE OF "ALL RUSSIAS"
        later USSR denied the existence of
  UKRAINE AS A NATIONAL ENTITY            sug> RUSSIFICATION
  hx> SLAVIC CULTURE SPREAD FROM KYIV ACROSS
      " THE RUSSIAS "  WHICH INCLUDED REGIONS KNOWN AS
  BLACK RUS or RUSSIA  TO THE NORTH AND WEST
  RED   RUS            WESTERN AREAS      sug> SLOVAKIA
  WHITE RUS    BELARUS or BIELORUSSIA
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& UKRAINE
  PERHAPS THE NATIVE TONGUE SPOKEN IN ANCIENT TIMES
  BY THOSE INHABITING THE AREA OF MODERN UKRAINE
  EVOLVED INTO MANY MODERN SLAVIC LANGUAGES  incl
  MACEDONIAN  BULGARIAN  SERB  CROAT  SLOVENE  CZECH
  SLOVAK  POLISH  BELORUSSIAN  RUSSIAN  and UKRAINIAN
  AND FURTHER BECAUSE THE CLOSE LINK OF UKRAINE WITH
  THE NORSE OSTROGOTH GREEK ITALIAN TATAR and
  TURKISH PEOPLE UKRAINIAN ROOTS ARE REFLECTED and
  THE RESPECTIVE LANGUAGES INCLUDING
  SANSKRIT GREEK LATIN GERMAN SPANISH and ENGLISH
  exposed throughout this compilation
  see> LANGUAGE SLAV SLAVIC
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& UKRAINE
  lit+ F VOLTAIRE [#] in [63] states
       " THE UKRAINE HATH ALWAYS ASPIRED AFTER LIBERTY
         BUT BEING SURROUNDED BY MUSCOVY
         THE STATES OF THE GRAND SEIGNOR (Turkey)
         AND BY POLAND
         IT HAS BEEN OBLIGED TO CHOOSE
         A PROTECTOR AND                 (Moscow)
         CONSEQUENTLY A MASTER ... "
  BEFORE INVADING RUSSIA
  Count Philippe Paul SEGUR [#] [63]
  Time Life Books Inc  Chicago 1958
  in "Napoleon's Russian Campaign"  notes that
  apparently the Emperor of the French
  did not intend to repeat
  " ... THE FOLLY OF CHARLES XII ... (of Sweden)
        TO PLUNGE INTO UKRAINE... "  (but he did)
  later GERMANY "PLUNGED" INTO UKRAINE TWICE
        EACH TIME UKRAINE TRIED FOR INDEPENDENCE
  note SEGUR [#] COMMENTS THAT
       UKRAINE COULD NOT GAIN INDEPENDENCE BECAUSE
  OF ITS STRATEGIC SITE ALONG THE PATH OF
  MANY REGIONAL CONFLICTS
  SOME EXPERTS SUSTAIN THAT THE CURRENT INDEPENDENCE
  OF UKRAINE IS ALSO TEMPORARY AND MAY CEASE AS SOON
  AS THE CURRENT "GREAT" RUSSIA now called
  RUSSIAN "FEDERATION" REGAINS ITS STRENGTH
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& UKRAINE
  for more see> KYIV formerly in Russian KIEV
  also     see> SLAV  SLAVIC  COSSACK  MAZEPPA  RUSSIA


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