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In the Kremlin, they wanted to play down Kiev's role in the history of Russia, so they tried to keep the history of the Russian state from Novgorod for some time, but later they were forced to abandon this idea.
This in the commentary to the "Observer" said the head of the department of the Institute of History of Ukraine NASU Vladislav Verstyuk.
"They had some maneuvers to deduce the history of Russia not from Kiev, but from Novgorod, but do you see Novgorod is a veche, democracy. It turned out that the Kremlin does not really like this. Because of this, I again had to return to the old song that Kiev is "the mother of Russian cities," and what "Russian", so it's not important, "said Verstiuk.
As reported by the "Observer", Russian President Vladimir Putin told the French leader Emmanuel Macron about the "Russian" Yaroslav the Wise.
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