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Originally posted by bilmore
I got yelled at sort of similarly once (and obviously forgot about it) - and then someone (russian) came to my defense, and pointed out that "Ukraine" means "border", and is simply what the old russians started calling their out-in-the-boonies breadbasket area. So, it's all cute for the Uke's to be nationalistically prideful and all, but they're really only dropping one small part ("The") of the fairly demeaning overall name.
It's kind of like, "the rooskies always called us "The Boonies", but we control our OWN destiny now, and so we're changing our name to "Boonies"! Yay, us!"
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Once again you are playing fast and loose with the facts. The Medeval Russian word for border transliterates roughly as "krai", and while it is the etymological derivaiton for both the Crimea and the Ukraine, no one would translate Ukraine as "border".
