Re: How Ukrainian is Ukraine ?

From: Des Small (des.small_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:27:26 GMT

belamiNoSpam@sympatico.ca (Raymond Roy) writes:

> Hello,
>
> watching the demonstration in Kyiv yesterday, I noticed that somme
> banners (or all) were in Russian. Isn't Ukraine supposed to be
> Ukrainian?

The world so very desparately needs more simple-minded nationalisme,
of course.

> How Ukrainian is Ukraine then ?

It tends to get solid 5.7s once the more egregian post-Soviet outliers
have been discarded. More on the parallel bars.

> And how Bielorussian is Bielorussia for that matter?

Well, they would, but they need the eggs.

Des
didn't cross post to soc.*, at least 

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