Yes, the numbers game needs serious countering, the numbers keeps creeping
up. And it's hard with only this census.
On Sunday, 9 March 2014, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> "Between 8 and 14 million of Ukraine's 47 million
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>> population are ethnic Russians"
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> Sorry Mr. Kurkov. Not even 8 million by now. That was the figure for the
> 2001 census. The 2011 census was cancelled by Yanukovich (they had
> "alarming" figures it seems re the continuing diminution of "ethnic
> Russians" in Ukraine). Even if the Donbas and The Crimea stay within
> Ukraine, I estimate that the total number of Russian ethnics will lower
> even more dramatically at the next census.
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> (Just in case some people are still dreaming of "Russian as a second state
> language"...(:=)))
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>
> Quoting Walter Iwaskiw <[email protected]>:
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> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/06/ukraine-
>> crisis-russia-andrey-kurkov
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>> Why I stayed as the crisis in Ukraine flared
>> The Ukrainian novelist was determined not to be cowed as rioting
>> rocked Kiev and Russia moved troops into Crimea
>>
>> Andrey Kurkov
>> The Guardian, Thursday 6 March 2014 10.45 EST
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>> ... I am also Russian, an ethnic Russian who has lived in Kiev from
>> early childhood. Between 8 and 14 million of Ukraine's 47 million
>> population are ethnic Russians and the word Russian doesn't give rise
>> to any aggression among Ukrainians or spark any glint of hatred in
>> their eyes. My grandfather was the first to arrive on Ukrainian soil.
>> He came in 1943, was killed in the battle to free Kharkiv and is
>> buried in a mass grave at the railway junction of Valki, not far from
>> the city. He died fighting against fascism and now I hear the word
>> fascist used about me because I am against the occupation of my
>> country by Putin's army, because I am against the state of total
>> corruption created by Yanukovich and his clan, because I want the
>> country where I live to be guided by the rule of law. No, I am not a
>> political activist and have never joined any political party and I
>> don't plan to join one. I am simply a citizen of my country. ...
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