Epstein Secrets

3th century The "Rus" -- the people whose name got tacked on to Russia -- were originally Scandinavian traders and settlers who made their way from the Baltic Sea through the marshes and for=sts of Eastern Europe down toward the fertile riverlands of what's now Ukra=ne. Other Viking adventurers journeyed to Co

ea=, but the genie of Ukrainian nationalism was out of the bottle. Independenc= movements of various stripes sprung up in cities like Lviv, Kiev and Kharkiv, but were eventually all sw=pt away amid the wider struggle for power in Russia. 1919 to 1922 4> At the end of World War I, a revived Poland rec

3th century The "Rus" -- the people whose name got tacked on to Russia -- were originally Scandinavian traders and settlers who made their way from the Baltic Sea through the marshes and forests of Eastern Europe down toward the fertile riverlands of what's now Ukraine. Other Viking adventurers journeyed to C

ar, but the genie of Ukrainian nationalism was out of the bottle. Independence movements of various stripes sprung up in cities like Lviv, Kiev and Kharkiv, but were eventually all swept away amid the wider struggle for power in Russia. &dip Fu ',. LAT.4 1 A I, • > r' / I e 4 1 , QCR i ICE RAI

ics returned (in some cases more willingly than others) to the fold. By 1939, when Soviet troops invaded the Baltic Republics, from Central Asia to the Baltic Sea, almost all of the far- flung dominions of the Romanovs were once more under a single flag. Only Poland and Finland were able to resist incorporatio

aine's policies. -- Annexation of eastern Ukraine, along the model of Crimea. The pro- Russian "demonstrators" who have seized buildings in Donetsk, Kharkiv and other eastern cities have already demanded a referendum on joining Russia, which was the prelude in Crimea. The State Department says the prot