Russia is historical name of Ukraine before Moscow renamed their empire into Russian Empire. Ethnic Russians took meeting in 1910 and rebranded themselves into Ukrainians, to avoid confusion with bloody empire, then started Great Ukrainization, to separate themselves from enslaved and erased nations, which ended with mass murder of millions of Ukrainians by Russians in 1932-1934.
Russian Empire died and buried in a grave in 1917. Don't dig it up, please.
Russian Empire died and buried in a grave in 1917. Don't dig it up, please.