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- What is the origin of Ukraine as a country?
- What is the origin of Russia Ukraine?
- Are Ukrainians of Russian origin?
What is the origin of Ukraine as a country?
Under the influence of Christianity, the Slavic ancestors of the Ukrainians began to search for their place in Medieval Europe. A powerful medieval state called Rus' land or just Rus' was born and it developed into Ukrainian lands, meeting its golden age at the turn of the 11th century.
What is the origin of Russia Ukraine?
Both Russia and Ukraine claim their heritage from Kievan Rus', a polity that united most of the East Slavic and some Finnic tribes and adopted Byzantine Orthodoxy in the ninth to eleventh centuries.
Are Ukrainians of Russian origin?
Overall, 77.8% of Ukraine's population self-identified as ethnically Ukrainian and 17.3% as ethnically Russian. Several other ethnic groups amounted to less than one percent of the country's population each – for example, Crimean Tatars 0.5%; Bulgarians 0.4%; Hungarians 0.3%; Jews 0.2%; Roma 0.1%.
