[Aaus-list] Can Ukrainians (or Jews) be Russians?

ГК g_kogolianko at ukr.net
Tue Mar 13 02:03:43 EDT 2018


ВІтання Романе!

The world has changed a lot and changes will continue.
Each country thinks about whom it should support and have
  their interests.
As for Putin, this is a brutal criminal gangster who comes from the KGB
Gegrge.




12 березня 2018, 17:59:40, від "Roman Solchanyk" <roman at solchanyk.org>:


Jewish groups are protesting that Mr. Putin is suggesting—in a recent interview with Megyn Kelly— that it could have been Jews (or Ukrainians or Tatars) who meddled in the 2016 US election—but not "Russians." 

"Maybe they're not even Russians," Putin explained.  "Maybe they're Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews—just with Russian citizenship."


Jewish groups are talking about anti-Semitism on Mr. Putin's part.  But there is another no less interesting dimension to his understanding of who is a "Russian." 


On the one hand, he is suggesting that Ukrainians, Tatars, and Jews are "ethnics"—i.e., not "real" Russians.  These ethnics do not count and apparently are not seen as part of the Russian (rosssiiskii) poltical nation—they are simply ethnics "just with Russian citizenship."  On the other hand, he is telling all manner of ethnics in the former Soviet Union (and beyond?) that if they "feel" Russian (?) they are welcome as members of the "russkii (not rossiiskii) mir."


Which is it, gospodin Putin?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/11/putin-condemned-for-saying-jews-may-have-manipulated-u-s-election/?utm_term=.b852037b5a11


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