DISINFO: Russians (Great Russians) and Ukrainians (Little Russians) are one people
SUMMARY
It is hard to call the Russians a diaspora because Russians (Great Russians) and Ukrainians (Little Russians) are one people. Nevertheless, Kyiv treats the country's 8 million Russian population as second-class citizens.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the all-Russian nation and the Russian world/civilisation.
The "all-Russian nation" is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians, as well as their sovereignty.
Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the Slavs ethnolinguistic group but they are not a single nation. Read more in our article One Nation Myth.
See similar disinformation narratives in our database: Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians are a single nation, Russians and Ukrainians are a single nation, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are three Russian political nations; What is happening in Ukraine can be called genocide of the Russian-speaking population; Ukraine has established an apartheid regime in relation to Russian speakers, Ukraine fights against the Russian language.