It should come as no surprise given Moscow’s long tradition of playing the ethnic card to advance Kremlin interests, but some may not have noticed how many Russians with Ukrainian roots and names are now being deployed by the Putin regime to denigrate the land of their ancestors.

On the one hand, of course, this provides support for Putin’s claim that Russians and Ukrainians aren’t two nations but one; but on the other and likely more important, it suggests that some that........

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