
Lubomyr Luciuk: Ukraine is not new
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Ukraine is not new.
As my colleague, Professor Paul Robert Magocsi, recently demonstrated in an incisive essay, “Ukraina Redux,” Ukrainians have attempted to forge a state of their own over several centuries.
Repeatedly, Ukrainians’ struggle for independent statehood has been thwarted by predacious, indeed rapacious, neighbors. This first happene