In 2003, the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma published a ghost-written book called "Ukraine Is Not Russia." Last summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin authored a long historical article making the opposite argument — it was called “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” — and many a Ukrainian heart sank. Sure enough, in less than six months, Russian troops and tanks started massing near the Ukrainian border.
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