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) has a historical basis ... Obviously, experts need to be consulted here, I like this idea, but experts should have their say,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
In November 2022, a petition appeared on the website of the office of the President of Ukraine with a request to rename Russia to Muscovy.
The petition also proposes to “replace the term “Russian” with “Moscow”, and “Russian Federation” with “Moscow Federation”.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal to "thoroughly work out" the possibility of renaming Russia to Muscovy.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that this is just one more evidence of an attempt to create “anti-Russia” from Ukraine.