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 S ince the juramaidan revolution of 2014  fighting with russian-backed separatists  in the east of the country has killed  over 13000 people  the crimean peninsula has been occupied  and unilaterally annexed  and with russian troops building up at  the ukrainian border we can ask how did  we get here and what does ukraine mean  to russia.u kraine is very important to russia they  trace their common history back near  your thousand years to the kingdom of  kevin russ its capital kiev still goes  by the nickname of mother of russian  cities  and for many russians including the  russian president vladimir putin ukraine  is part of what he calls historic russia  and ukrainians and russians are one in  the same people  roughly 30 percent of ukrainians mostly  in the east of the country speak russian  as a first language and 15 of the  population considers themselves to be...