KEITH LOWE ON… THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS
“Russian nationalists have always felt betrayed by Ukraine”
At the beginning of the 20th century, today’s Ukraine was split between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. The Russian part was officially known in Moscow as “Little Russia”, and was subjected to a series of repressive measures to keep it that way. When Ukrainians began agitating for greater autonomy in 1906, Tsar Nicholas II reacted by arresting Ukrainian activists.
In the aftermath of
