Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, commented on the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky’s instruction to consider changing the name of Russia to Muscovy in the Ukrainian language. Earlier, Zelensky responded to the petition of Ukrainian citizens, who received more than 25 thousand votes, instructing that this possibility be investigated.
According to Medvedev’s article, telegraph channelin this case the name of Ukraine should be changed to “Pig Bandera Reich”.
“Well, what can I say … Our answer? No, of course not Hohlandia. And certainly not Little Russia. Only Schweinisch Bandera-Reich. Exactly the same!” Medvedev wrote, describing the President of Ukraine as “the highest Kiev Nazi.”
Commenting on the decision of the Ukrainian president, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Vladimir Zelensky “justifies Moscow every day.”
“Here is another proof of the attempt to create an “anti-Russian” from Ukraine,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
How did the State Duma react?
Leonid Slutsky, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, also commented on the initiative on his Telegram channel, describing the Ukrainian President as “incompetent and drug addicted”. He expressed the view that the actions of the country’s authorities “continue to push Ukraine into the abyss.”
“For myself, I don’t see the point in faking and suggesting other names for Ukraine by getting into an argument with a shelter resident. Great Russia has been and will remain Great Russia,” wrote Slutsky.
Alexei Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, Lenta.ru He declared that changing the name of Russia to Muscovy would not affect anything.
“This is stupid, how can we react? He wants very little. Whatever they do. It doesn’t affect anything, it’s their inner [дело]”, – said the deputy.
Petition to change the name of Russia
The President of Ukraine is obliged to consider all petitions that have collected more than 25,000 votes on his official website. The initiative to change the name of Russia to Muscovy, which was submitted for consideration on November 23, was supported by approximately 25.8 thousand users.
The petition proposes to replace the Ukrainian words “Russian Federation” with “Moscow Federation” and “Russian” with “Moscow”. According to the petition initiator, Russia, as it is now called “Kiev has captured Russian history”, its renaming would be a “strong information move” at the international level.
In the response of the President of Ukraine to the petition, it is stated that Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal was instructed to examine this possibility by involving scientific institutions in the discussion. Zelenskiy urged to resolve the issue “both in the historical and cultural context and taking into account possible international legal implications”.
The name “Moscow” for the territory of Russia, 16th-17th centuries. It has been used in foreign sources for centuries. It was used in parallel with the ethnographic name “Russia”. Historian Sergei Solovyov noted that during the reign of Peter I, the Russian government made diplomatic efforts to defeat Russia’s two names in Europe.
Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty in January that the West was trying to turn Russia into Moscow with Ukraine’s help, and Vladimir Putin argued that NATO’s main goal was to dissolve. The fragmentation of Russia and the Russian ethnic group into “Muscovites”, “Urals”. “etc.