Governments, particularly results of conquest OVER ethnicities are not the peopl

Governments, particularly results of conquest OVER ethnicities are not the people within them. They are still different ethnicities, and their genetics demonstrate it with clarity. Of the two Ukraine retained a european cultural disposition and moreso because of polish, lithuanian and especially austrian rule. And Russia maintained a mongol cultural disposition with a thin veil of french authoritarian. The Russians migrated people into eastern ukraine to work the military industry and coal mines. And they depopulated (or murdered) the ukrainians in what is today southern russia. Russian empire is due to Muscovy not Novgorod, which it destroyed.