He called the work of Kuchma in 2003 “frankly pseudoscientific.”
“In fact, it was this concept, which was laid down in this work“ Ukraine is not Russia ”, became a kind of intellectual foundation of modern nationalist Ukrainian elites,” Lavrov noted.
He is sure that Ukraine always wanted to become anti -Russian, and achieved this as a result of the revolution of dignity.
“It is likely that it is very difficult to replace historical truth, so the ideologists of this very“ Ukraine – not Russia ”hit such research and publish such supposedly scientific works that the last hair rises on end,” he added.
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At the beginning of 2023, Kuchma reissued a book with updates, calling it “Ukraine is not Russia. 20 years later,” the press secretary of the ex-president Darku Olifer reported this. According to Kuchma himself, he wrote the previous edition for Russians, “when he still believed that they could somehow say normally with them, to explain something to them.” The new edition is intended for the Ukrainian reader. “All the kind words about Russia once burned out, Russia itself burned out. Russia itself burned out not only in this book, but also in the soul and memory of our people, who has been associated with Russia for centuries of history,” the ex-president says.
