Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna Rada in KievMOSCOW, Jan 19 The Ukrainian government needs to change its name country. General, ex-head of the SBU Igor Smeshko said this on air on the Nash TV channel. «I would restore the true historical name of our state. Our state should be called Rus-Ukraine,» the general said. At the same time, the words Rus and Russia are different things «like Russian and Russian,» he noted. A similar initiative was voiced in the Ukrainian government before. For example, the Ukrainian deputies put forward an initiative to call Russia «Muscovy». In response, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, suggested that they return to the European Union its «historical name» — the Holy Roman Empire.
