Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/572792-kiev-mulls-renaming-russia/

The issue needs to be “carefully worked out,” President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed | Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has instructed his government to consider renaming Russia as ‘Moscovia’, an unofficial designation used centuries ago. The move comes after a petition insisted that by using the word ‘Russia’, Ukraine is endorsing a “dangerous claim” that its neighbor is a direct descendant of Kievan Rus. ● In a statement on Friday, Zelensky said he had turned to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal with a request for the “comprehensive processing” of the petition, which had gathered the necessary 25,000 votes to be considered. The issue “needs to be carefully worked out both in terms of the historical and cultural context, and from the perspective of possible international legal consequences,” with scientific institutions taking part in the process, the Ukrainian president added. ● The name ‘Moscovia’ dates back to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, one of principalities of Kievan Rus in the late Middle Ages. The modern Russian state formed around this center of power while retaining historic and cultural roots stemming from Rus. ● Commenting on the move, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that it was 💬 “further evidence of an attempt to create an ‘anti-Russia’ out of Ukraine.”

Объясняет Readovka | "Russians don't exist!" - Zelensky wants to lead the movement to decolonize Russia | Today, the head of the Kiev regime has instructed the government to look into the possibility of renaming Russia into "Muskovia." Laugh as much as you like: isn't there any other problem in Ukraine but to change the names from "aggressor country" to "Muscovia" and back? Except that these efforts by Kiev to "cancelling" the Russians are not as harmless as they may seem. ● "Decolonization" of our country is the maximum program for the West. To solve the "Russian question" once and for all. All these maps with dozens of microstates created by the "free peoples of Russia," however ridiculous and detached from reality they may be, are an unimaginable threat to the very existence of our people. ● And the proclamation of Russia as "Muscovy" is just another step on the road to "decolonization. There are no Russians, there is no state of the Russian people, "Russia is a social construct. There is only "Muscovy" - a kind of bloody Mordor, that seized the lands of free Ingria, that ruined the Khanate of Kazan, that committed genocide against the indigenous peoples of Siberia... and so on. ● Nonsense, you say? But these are exactly the narratives that the West is now going to push forward, both in the territories under its control, and in our homes. That is why they are making an "anti-Russia" out of Ukraine, which will serve as an "assemblage point" for centrifugal political processes on the territory of our country. We can already see how the "outposts" of neo-Nazi militants in the service of the GUR are trying to declare the creation of a "Bryansk People's Republic," but this is only the beginning. ● How do we counter something like this? First, it is necessary to protect against subversive activities of ethno-separatists inside the country. The circles of "Ingrian," "Turan" and "Free Siberians" must be suppressed in the most brutal way, just like any other separatist organizations in a belligerent country. ● As for the external influence, everything is clear. If there is no Ukraine, there will be no "anti-Russia" to which the adherents of decolonization could look. (Translation: yandex.ru & DeepL.com)