Serhii Plokhy
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be in Chernihiv at the time, this is east of Crimea, at the time of the Russian aggression and bombardment and so on and so forth, who had passive knowledge of Ukrainian but spoke all their life Russian. And they would speak Ukrainian to me and when I say, okay, why are you doing that? We know each other for decades and you used Russian. And he said,
be in Chernihiv at the time, this is east of Crimea, at the time of the Russian aggression and bombardment and so on and so forth, who had passive knowledge of Ukrainian but spoke all their life Russian. And they would speak Ukrainian to me and when I say, okay, why are you doing that? We know each other for decades and you used Russian. And he said,
I don't want to have anything in common with people who did that to us. There is a big, big push, of course, with this current war. Now, the question is whether this change is something that will stay or not. What is the future? Linguistic practices are very, very conservative ones.
I don't want to have anything in common with people who did that to us. There is a big, big push, of course, with this current war. Now, the question is whether this change is something that will stay or not. What is the future? Linguistic practices are very, very conservative ones.
I don't want to have anything in common with people who did that to us. There is a big, big push, of course, with this current war. Now, the question is whether this change is something that will stay or not. What is the future? Linguistic practices are very, very conservative ones.
And we at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute have a project called MAPA, Digital Atlas of Ukraine, and we were documenting and mapping different data in time. And what we noticed, a spike in the people's self-reporting of use of Ukrainian in 2014 and 2015 at the time of the start of the war when the threat was the most clear one. This is self-reporting.
And we at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute have a project called MAPA, Digital Atlas of Ukraine, and we were documenting and mapping different data in time. And what we noticed, a spike in the people's self-reporting of use of Ukrainian in 2014 and 2015 at the time of the start of the war when the threat was the most clear one. This is self-reporting.
And we at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute have a project called MAPA, Digital Atlas of Ukraine, and we were documenting and mapping different data in time. And what we noticed, a spike in the people's self-reporting of use of Ukrainian in 2014 and 2015 at the time of the start of the war when the threat was the most clear one. This is self-reporting.
That doesn't mean that people exactly do what they believe that they're supposed to do. And then return back to where it was by the year 2016 and 2017. So this dynamic can repeat itself. But given how long the war is going on, how big the impact, how big the stress is, and that the wave of the future is probably associated with younger people who are switching to Ukrainian.
That doesn't mean that people exactly do what they believe that they're supposed to do. And then return back to where it was by the year 2016 and 2017. So this dynamic can repeat itself. But given how long the war is going on, how big the impact, how big the stress is, and that the wave of the future is probably associated with younger people who are switching to Ukrainian.
That doesn't mean that people exactly do what they believe that they're supposed to do. And then return back to where it was by the year 2016 and 2017. So this dynamic can repeat itself. But given how long the war is going on, how big the impact, how big the stress is, and that the wave of the future is probably associated with younger people who are switching to Ukrainian.
So I would, my bet would be on Ukrainian language rising in prominence.
So I would, my bet would be on Ukrainian language rising in prominence.
So I would, my bet would be on Ukrainian language rising in prominence.
The idea is very conveniently presented already in the first paragraph, in the first sentences, really, of the article. where Putin says that for a long time I was saying that Russians and Ukrainians were one and the same people, and here is the proof. This is the historical, he develops his historical argumentation apparently with the help of a lot of people around him.
The idea is very conveniently presented already in the first paragraph, in the first sentences, really, of the article. where Putin says that for a long time I was saying that Russians and Ukrainians were one and the same people, and here is the proof. This is the historical, he develops his historical argumentation apparently with the help of a lot of people around him.
The idea is very conveniently presented already in the first paragraph, in the first sentences, really, of the article. where Putin says that for a long time I was saying that Russians and Ukrainians were one and the same people, and here is the proof. This is the historical, he develops his historical argumentation apparently with the help of a lot of people around him.
And he started to talk about Russians and Ukrainians being one and the same people one year before the start of the war in 2014. So in 2013, he was together with Patriarch Kirill on visit to Kiev, and there was a conference specifically organized for him in the Kievan Caves monastery, and that's where he stated that.
And he started to talk about Russians and Ukrainians being one and the same people one year before the start of the war in 2014. So in 2013, he was together with Patriarch Kirill on visit to Kiev, and there was a conference specifically organized for him in the Kievan Caves monastery, and that's where he stated that.
And he started to talk about Russians and Ukrainians being one and the same people one year before the start of the war in 2014. So in 2013, he was together with Patriarch Kirill on visit to Kiev, and there was a conference specifically organized for him in the Kievan Caves monastery, and that's where he stated that.