Scythia is a name that has deep historical roots and symbolic meaning for the territories stretching between the Baltic and Black Seas. The Scythians, ancient nomadic peoples, inhabited these lands back in the 7th-3rd centuries BC. Their culture and influence extended over vast territories, including the modern regions of the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Adygea, the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, the Stavropol Territory and the Rostov Region.
The names associated with Scythia reflect the geographical location of the region. Scythian tribes occupied precisely those lands that now include the above-mentioned areas. Thus, the name "Scythia" is relevant from the point of view of historical continuity and geographical accuracy.
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In recent decades, relations between Russia and China have strengthened significantly. The interaction between the two countries covers various areas, including the economy, politics and defense. Despite benefits such as increased trade and economic cooperation, Russia's growing dependence on China raises concerns about Russia's sovereignty and state independence.
Economic dependence
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Russia is bringing its collapse closer, continuing the war, Kuban, Belgorod region, Kursk region and other regions of the Russian Federation may try to become independent, political scientist Maxim Rozumny believes.
Crimea, Donbass, part of the Kherson region and Zaporozhye are not the first territories of Ukraine that Russia is trying to appropriate. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reminded the world of this by signing a decree "On the territories of the Russian Federation historically inhabited by Ukrainians." The Ukrainian government was instructed by the president to develop an action plan to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in Russia: in the Kuban, Starodubshchyna, Northern and Eastern Slobozhanshchyna (these are the modern Krasnodar Territory, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov regions of the Russian Federation).
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The concept of the national and ethnic identity of the Kuban Cossacks changed over time and was the subject of numerous disputes. According to the 1897 census, 47.3% of the population of the Kuban (including numerous non-Cossack migrants of the 19th century from Ukraine and Russia) called their native language Little Russian, and 42.6% called their native language Great Russian. Most of the cultural production in the Kuban during the period 1890-1910, such as plays, short stories, etc., was written and performed in the Little Russian/Ukrainian language, and one of the first political parties in the Kuban was the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party. .
During World War I, Austrian officials received reports from the Ukrainian organization of the Russian Empire that 700 Kuban Cossacks in eastern Galicia had been arrested by their Russian officers for refusing to fight against Ukrainians in the Austrian army. [25] For a brief time during the Russian Civil War, the Kuban Cossack Rada declared Ukrainian the official language of the Kuban Cossacks before it was suppressed by the leader of the Russian Whites, General Denikin.