The funny thing is that the "nationalists" who spit on the term "Russian" and demand to write "Russian" everywhere, do not understand that "Russian = Russian" in the functional meaning of the term. Let me explain: in the 16th-17th centuries, the people of Ukraine often called themselves "Rusyns/Rotans" or "Orthodox", but only in the language of ministry documents, or to designate/divide themselves in a foreign environment on the basis of territorial/religious affiliation; In everyday life, people often identified themselves by their area of residence (future sub-ethnic groups). That is, "Rusyn/Orthodox" in those days, if translated into the language of modern thinking, is citizenship (cultural-territorial affiliation), i.e. "Russian". Once an Orthodox Christian changed his religious rite from Orthodoxy to Catholicism, he became "Lithuanian/Polish/Catholic" and vice versa, respectively. Rosin/Rotan is a person geographically and culturally from Rus', like a territory on a map (to simplify understanding and interaction). Nationalists give the term "Russian" a strictly ethnic meaning, which is actually very blurred in the periphery along cultural and linguistic lines. Rusyn/Ruthyn from the buffer zones of Seversk, Strodovshchyna, Slovozhenshchyna, later Zaporozhye and Don - this is something between Muscovy/Ruthyn and Ruthyn from a territory that was administratively dependent on Lithuania and Poland in its cultural and linguistic terms. So ironically, Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians (and the Baltic states) were created during the birther policies of the Bolsheviks, who forcibly drew these borders on maps on top of all historical natural differences and buffer zones of mixing.