Kuban Woman = Armenian Woman? Commentary for ICTV (09.06.2025)

Date
9 June 2025
Duration
35:21
Platform
YouTube

Vitaliy Dribnytsia’s studio commentary for ICTV responds to Margarita Simonyan’s claim that Austria and Poland created the Ukrainian language. The historian examines the linguistic arguments, imperial labels for Ukrainian, and the role of former Zaporozhians in Russia’s colonization of Kuban.

Key moments

  1. 01:48 Margarita Simonyan's claim that Austria and Poland 'invented' Ukrainian
  2. 03:54 The 1798 Eneida and Ukrainian features in the St Sophia graffiti
  3. 07:39 The languages of Shevchenko's works and the imperial label 'South Russian'
  4. 12:41 Kuban: Circassian lands, former Zaporozhians, and imperial colonization
  5. 17:37 The myth that Ukraine owes its modernization to the Russian Empire and USSR
  6. 24:58 Imperial historiography's appropriation of Kyivan Rus' history

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