Russia and Ukraine Battling for Historical Truth
... and continuity of historical epochs have not practically undergone any revisions, with all projects to interpret and describe history (Sergey Solovyov [7] , Vassily Klyuchevsky [8] , Sergey Uvarov's triad of Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality) working ... ... variations, this scheme was taught both in the Soviet period and following the disintegration of the USSR. Nobody questions the Kievan Rus as the source of statehood and the Moscow Princedom and later the Russian Empire as its successor. However, the political decision to annex Crimea had been perceived ambiguously both in Russia and abroad and hence has required additional legitimization. The new mythologem ...