Monument of Independence of Ukraine in KievMOSCOW, February 3 glad Svyatoslav Piskun advised President Volodymyr Zelensky to think about the «revival of Kievan Rus». An unusual statement was made on the Nash TV channel. «We will say that Muscovy is Kievan Rus,» he suggested. reconsidered» his position on the place of negotiations with Russia. Piskun substantiated his «initiative» by the fact that the territory of Moscow was being developed under the «Prince of Kiev Yuri Dolgoruky.» In Ukraine, this is not the first time they have appealed to history in this way. So, back in 2019, Piskun proposed «to collect rent from Russia for the use of the lands of Kievan Rus for a 300-year period.» At that time, the Federation Council regarded the statement as nonsense and «scoffing.» Also, statements about «Muscovy» have already been heard from the lips of Ukrainian politicians. In December 2021, the Zelensky Lviv Regional Council and the Verkhovna Rada will rename the Russian Federation in this way. The Kiev City Council also registered a draft of a similar decision. In response to this, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, noted that such «exotic initiatives» indicate that Ukraine has failed as a state. The politician also suggested that Kiev think about renaming the European Union into the Holy Roman Empire.
