OPINION | Ukraine: Faith and State [Corporate Watch By Amelia H. C. Ylagan] READ:
ussians and Ukrainians are one people — a single whole,” Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in a passionate article onon July 12, 2021. It was a long dissertation on the common origins of Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians in medieval Kievan Rus’ and their history through the century, concluding that “true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia.
The dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics three decades ago divided the people of the union. Some say it was inadvertently started by then-President Mikhail Gorbachev when he introduced at that time when the Cold War was thawing between the communist governments and the democratic “West” led by America, and the peoples of the Soviet states became aware of how other nations lived and thrived.
Gorbachev resigned. There was no more USSR. The former constituent national republics were just neighbors. Not one people, as Putin says of Russians and Ukrainians — contradictory to his assault on Ukraine today. What else can Russian air strikes and bombings, tanks plunging into Ukrainian border cities, the killing of civilians and young soldiers mean but that the Russian bully does not care for its own, if Ukraine were really its dearest brother.
The Pew Research Center says that “Orthodox Christianity is closely tied to Ukraine’s national and political life. Roughly half of all Ukrainians say it is at least somewhat important for someone to be Orthodox to be truly Ukrainian. The same is true for Russia, where 57% say being Orthodox is important to being truly Russian.
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