Slovo o polku Igoreve

[Irena Ustinova]

Before the 14th century there was one nation, that later divided into
Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians and one language- Old Slavic. So there is
nothing offensive for Ukrainians  that the State was Kiev Rus', as there was
a tribe of Rus' who lived at that territory.

Irena Ustinova


and oAt 09:43 AM 5/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Daniel Rancour-Laferriere wrote:
>
>>7 May 1998
>>
>>Colleagues:
>>
>>Edward L. Keenan has just driven another one of his golden nails into the
>>coffin of Russian nationalist scholarship.  Not only is the Igor tale not
>>part of "Russian" literature, it is not even a part of "Rusian" (Lunt)
>>literature.
>>
>>Another way to look at this is to observe that there is one less reason for
>>conflating things Rusian with things Russian, because there is one less
>>Rusian cultural object for Russian culture to claim for itself.
>>
>>And this is good for Ukrainians, who are naturally offended by expressions
>>such as "Kievan Russia" ("Rossiia kievskaia" - Berdiaev) in reference to
>>Rus' before Russia existed.
>>
>>Let's just adopt Horace Lunt's term "Rusian" and stop offending the other
>>East Slavs.
>
>This is not just policing "which works belong to which literary traditions"
>as J. Douglas Clayton wrote, but ideological control of language and
>linguistics. By the same token, Portugese should hate Spaniards for common
>cultural history, and French should have it in for Italians for the common
>Latin literature and language, and we should all hate each other for having
>shared the common Indo-European language. And we should certainly support
>the Greeks in their claim to the word Macedonian.
>
>Alina Israeli
>
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