Probably true, at least for the time being, though I'm taking a wait-and-see approach before I update my oldest cities quiz, which is now inaccurate for the same reason.
That's the most ludicrous thing. While Russia's foolhardy, overly aggressive attempt left much to be desired, the Crimeans do not show any indication of ever wanting to be part of Ukraine, and appear to have joined Russia willingly. Not to mention they have never been part of any form of a Ukrainian state except for the brief post-Russian Revolution period in which Ukraine also controlled vast swathes of the Caucasus, which no one is in a hurry to "return" to them today. To compare it to the rats in ISIS is insane.
There were people in Iraq and Syria who also wanted to live in the Islamic State. It's a pretty apt comparison. What Russia did was an illegal, cynical, self-serving land grab that violated Ukraine's sovereignty and has resulted in thousands of deaths. They didn't and never have cared about protecting Russian-speaking people and are no heroes.
Odessa was larger when the Russian Empire was around, but Kharkiv is and has been larger than Odessa since when the USSR existed. Ukraine's population as a whole has been declining steadily since the collapse of the USSR.
Hmm. You don't die of hunger, you die of starvation. hunger-famine is a bit like wind-tornado: famine is a disaster made up of extreme hunger, but hunger on its own is quite normal.
Although those separatists in the Donbass are indeed most likely Ukrainian citizens with Russian ethnicity, I think the more appropriate/neutral term is "pro-Russian separatists". ("Russian separatists" would make to obvious that these lands are indeed "Russian lands"...;-) )
It's not weak it just is a vital choke point for trying to maintain control of either Europe or Asia, the two hardest to defend and most often contested continents, so it naturally gets overrun often.
Mixed feelings about this beautiful country. Had an unforgettable time there in the Spring of 2016 when I had a lovely apartment overlooking the Black Sea for a few weeks, another great place downtown in Kiev after that, visiting Chernobyl, relaxing on the beach, eating strawberries, meeting many impossibly lovely women. Had a decidedly less awesome time when I went back in the Winter of 2017, got stood up the 1st day, mugged and hospitalized on the 2nd, and was stuck inside recovering for the next couple months.
What does an "ethnic group of horsemen" mean? That statement is not worded correctly. From the way I read it, the author is insinuating that the Cossacks were ethnically Ukrainian which is factually incorrect. Cossacks were a Slavic Steppe people that lived in locally established "hosts" across Southern Russia and Eastern Ukraine since at least the 1500s. The Ukrainian Host is just one out of at least a dozen others.
So you're the so-and-so who gets s's removed from obviously plural words so that the rest of us are left with an 's' intruding on the following question?
"massive stockpile of these" - do you think one nuclear weapon counts as a massive stockpile? Can "these" refer to a singular thing? No and no. Stop being lazy and type the 's'!
Consider please accepting different spellings of cossack. It is not an english word by origin and guessing what you guys chose as spelling is tedius :(
I took this quiz about a year ago and got 4/22. I took it again just now and I got 17/22. Is it because of the news we don't talk about or my geography skills improving?
Lots of propaganda here. The Holodomer never happened and it was simply a famine. Theres no evidence to suggest Russia shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight either. Also, Crimea was not 'seized', it voted to join Russia. Pathetic honestly.
Would it be possible to change the presented spelling of Dnieper to Dnipro, considering that is how it is called in Ukraine? I think Dnieper should definitely be an acceptable answer, but that's the Russian name for it and I assume this only really is talking about the river when it's in Ukraine, where they call it the Dnipro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw
"Millions died from this 1932 and 1933"
Millions died from this "in" 1932 and 1933? Or perhaps Millions died from this 1932 and 1933 disaster/event/something else?
Open to ideas but I feel that it could be better.
"massive stockpile of these" - do you think one nuclear weapon counts as a massive stockpile? Can "these" refer to a singular thing? No and no. Stop being lazy and type the 's'!
It's an English word!
thanks!