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[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|350px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
[[File:Annexations to the territory of Ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Annexations to the territory of Ukraine]]
The name "[[Ukraine]]" is of [[Polish]] origin (Pol. ''u kraya'') literally meaning "at the side" or "borderland". No such entity or [[nation state]] is recorded to exist on any map prior to 1904. The ethno-linguistic group commonly referred to as "Ukrainian" largely resided in the Austro-Hungarian province of [[Galicia]], are of [[Russian]] origin, practice the [[Eastern Orthodox]] [[Christian]] faith under the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], and developed their own [[dialect]] of the Russian language as they became detached from the main body of [[Russian Orthodox]] Christendom, living under the domination of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and later the Roman Catholic [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]].
The name "[[Ukraine]]" is of [[Polish]] origin (Pol. ''u kraya'') literally meaning "at the side" or "borderland". No such entity or [[nation state]] is recorded to exist on any map prior to 1904. The ethno-linguistic group commonly referred to as "Ukrainian" largely resided in the Austro-Hungarian province of [[Galicia]], are of [[Russian]] origin, practice the [[Eastern Orthodox]] [[Christian]] faith under the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], and developed their own [[dialect]] of the Russian language as they became detached from the main body of [[Russian Orthodox]] Christendom, living under the domination of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and later the Roman Catholic [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]].
==Western-backed regime change: 2011/2021==
==Western-backed regime change: 2011/2021==
{{See also|Euromaidan coup}}
{{See also|Euromaidan coup}}
[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|350px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|290px|thumb|Written on the wall is the [[Russophobic]] slogan “Ukraine for Ukrainians.” ]]
In 2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair, open and [[democracy|democratic]] presidential election certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).
In 2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair, open and [[democracy|democratic]] presidential election certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).
===Tech training camp===
===Tech training camp===
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|290px|thumb|Written on the wall is the [[Russophobic]] slogan “Ukraine for Ukrainians.” ]]
On March 1, 2013, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv held its first “Tech Camp”<ref>https://archive.ph/1JqVs</ref> in a series of Tech Camps to teach Ukraine's leading pro-nazis how to reach out to their followers so as to get as many people as possible trained and prepared to follow their instructions on what to do when the Euromaidan 'anti-corruption' demonstrations would be held.
On March 1, 2013, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv held its first “Tech Camp”<ref>https://archive.ph/1JqVs</ref> in a series of Tech Camps to teach Ukraine's leading pro-nazis how to reach out to their followers so as to get as many people as possible trained and prepared to follow their instructions on what to do when the Euromaidan 'anti-corruption' demonstrations would be held.