Back In The USSR
Well, you can take Ukraine out of Russia (well at least out of the Soviet Union) but it's very apparent that you can't take Russia out of Ukraine! Russia really began life in present day Ukraine with the establishment of "Kyivan Rus" in the 9th century, a Scandinavian settlement in what is now Kiev...
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