FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
However the suppression of the Ukrainian free farmers by the Polish nobility, further imposition of Serfdom and the suppression of the Orthodox church pushed the allegiances of Cossacks away from Poland and towards Orthodox Russia, which was one reason for the later downfall of the Polish-Lithuanian state.
Ukrainians played an important role in the frequent wars between East European monarchies and the Ottoman Empire, however much of the Cossack culture and identity was supressed by Tsarist Russia, which had as little use for independent - or autonomous - Cossack state as previously Commonwealth did.
Ukrainian and Russian are spoken by 55% and 45% respectively, but considered to be a native language by 67.5% and 29.6% of population, according to the 2001 Census.
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, Ukraina, /ukraˈjina/; Russian: Украи́на, Ukraina) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south.
On Ukrainian territory (Rus' in the narrow sense), the state of Kievan Rus' was succeeded by the principalities of Halych and Volodymyr-Volynskyi, which were merged into the state of Halych-Volynia.
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