Paul Goble: Ukrainian conflict is between ‘heirs of Kyivan Rus’ and ‘heirs of Golden Horde’
Pro-Russian separatists take part in a military competition between tank units near the town of Torez, in the Donetsk region, on Sept. 24, 2015.
"The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is to a significant degree a conflict between the heirs of Kyivan Rus [Ukraine] and the heirs of the Golden Horde" [Moscow], according to Andrey Piontkovsky, and one of its key results will be "an intensification of the swallowing of Russia by China."
