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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1539763, member: 12789&quot;]Loaded question.&nbsp; Let us just say there are many differing opinions, in politics, business etc.&nbsp; Language is a real hot button issue, the government officially mandated usage of Ukrainian language in all government business etc.&nbsp; But a small majority of people speak mostly or only Russian as a first language.&nbsp; A legacy of really being a part of Russia for over 300 years is that east of Dnepr River people speak Russian.&nbsp; The mainly Ukrainian speaking regions in the west were part of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth or later part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a banknote issued in Bukovina region, a mostly Ukrainian speaking area that for a bit of time after the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian empire became part of Romania:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/bukovina/bukovina100koron1919.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have been places in Ukraine that in the past couple of hundred years have been controlled by the Ottoman Turks, the Bulgarians, the Romanians, then the Russians, then the USSR, then Romania, then USSR again, now Ukraine.&nbsp; It is hotly contested territory.&nbsp; Ever go to Ukraine and you may find out real reason why.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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