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DataArt Global Technical Recruiter - Americas & EMEA.🔎🔥 DataArt stays with Ukraine 💙💛 Be brave like Ukrainе. Stop rashism!

❗ ▶ Few figures that are worth your attention if you have not yet formed your opinion about the russian war that is currently taking place in Ukraine.

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Professor of Economics, Board Member, Founding Rector of American University Kyiv

Russia went to war to “liberate russian speaking Ukrainians”. This is a common propaganda narrative that some continue to repeat. But being russian-speaking doesn't mean you want to be part of russia, just as Ireland doesn't want to be a part of UK and Austria a part of Germany just because they speak the same language. Many russian-speaking Ukrainians understand they speak russian because of colonization. Many have switched to Ukrainian, but some still prefer to speak russian because it is difficult to break the habit. But that does not mean that they want to be a part of Russia. When Ukrainians were voting to be a separate nation in 1991, the vast majority of russian-speaking Ukrainians wanted to separate from russia. They voted freely, without a gun pointing at them. And they voted to be a part of independent Ukraine.

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