After Kiev was changed to Kyiv, a petition is now calling for the Ukrainian government to rename Russia Taz_Ali_ reports:
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his government is looking into the possibility of changing the Ukrainian name for Russia from “Rosiya” to “Muscovy” , in the latest move in an ethnic war playing out alongside thestates that Russia’s historical name is Moscow, and that “Russia” has only existed for about 300 years, after Peter the Great proclaimed the Moscow kingdom as the Russian Empire in October 1721.
“Lots of people used the name Rus in various ways over the centuries – it just became mainly associated with Russia because of Russia’s later status as a large powerful empire,” Dr Blacker told“The adoption of the name was basically a sort of memory politics from the rulers of Moscow, claiming an older history to justify present political ambitions.”who compares himself with Peter the Great in speeches.
It is also not the first time language has been used as a tool of politics and power in Ukraine, the most notable example is‘Kyiv’ is an official Latin transliteration of the city’s name in the Ukrainian language, while ‘Kiev’ derived from the Russian spelling under Soviet rule and continued to be used when Ukraine declared independence in 1991..
It has garnered enough signatures – more than 25,000 – for the President to officially respond to it., Mr Zelensky said the matter has been referred to the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, to “review” the possibility of renaming Russia.
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