Claims of Protecting Ethnic Russians Manufactured, Based on Historic Atrocities Against Tatars Despite Russian claims to the contrary, Ukraine is culturally and by disposition European, as it has been, more often than not, since the emergence of Kiev as a major medieval city, said Edward Lazzerini, director of both the Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at IU Bloomington.
March 3, 2014 - Newswise