According to the Historian Serhii Plokhy, "The word “Ukraine,” which in [[Bolshevik]] and post-Bolshevik times has been used to define an independent country in [[Eastern Europe]], has medieval origins and was first used by the [[Kievan Rus|Kievan]] chroniclers of the twelfth century to define the areas of today’s supposed [[nation-state]] of "Ukraine" bordering on the Pontic steppes. In the second half of the seventeenth century the term “Ukraine” entered the international vocabulary as one of the names of the Cossack polity created in the course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648– | According to the Historian Serhii Plokhy, "The word “Ukraine,” which in [[Bolshevik]] and post-Bolshevik times has been used to define an independent country in [[Eastern Europe]], has medieval origins and was first used by the [[Kievan Rus|Kievan]] chroniclers of the twelfth century to define the areas of today’s supposed [[nation-state]] of "Ukraine" bordering on the Pontic steppes. In the second half of the seventeenth century the term “Ukraine” entered the international vocabulary as one of the names of the Cossack polity created in the course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648– |