MOSCOW. (Political commentator Leonid Mlechin...

They try not only to please their compatriots, but also to spoil the mood of their neighbors.

Well-aware of Moscow's reaction, President Yushchenko posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to a man who was considered a criminal in the Soviet Union. The Commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA) Roman Shukhevich (alias General-Cornet Taras Chuprinka) received the title for "outstanding personal contribution to the national-liberation struggle for freedom and independence."

Kiev appealed to the United Nations to qualify the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s (Golodomor) as an act of genocide, that is deliberate destruction of Ukrainians by Moscow...

In turn, the Ukrainian leaders hear humiliating words of Russian politicians to the effect that Ukraine has not made it as an independent state, and will break into two parts.

History has become a Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. For instance, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, a Moscow favorite, is considered

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