Ukraine - Slavs

The Independent When this rising tide threatened to engulf Ukraine – a country which Russia regards almost as an extension of itself, the "Little Russia" of the Tsarist Empire, source of the Orthodox faith, Scotland (if you like) to Russia's England – Vladimir Putin finally decided to call a halt. Crimea was seized in panicky anticipation of Nato taking it over. And Russia is now backing the rebels of east Ukraine as a way of enforcing two key demands – no Nato membership for Ukraine and proper protections for the Russian speaking population.  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-west-cannot-keep-poking-the-russian-bear-9644509.html

Ukrainians ... are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians

The Scottish people (Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich), or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse. Later the Normans also had some influence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people


Historically, the English population is descended from several peoples — the earlier Britons (or Brythons), the Germanic tribes that settled in the region (including Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons) who founded what was to become England (from the Old English Englaland), and the later Danes, Normans and other groups. Following the Acts of Union 1707, in which the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain,  English customs and identity became closely aligned with British customs and identity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

The Not-so-Independent's at it again.

Slavs are not divisible.

Just as Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews are not divisible, and are Jews first and foremost.

Either you are Slavic or you are not Slavic.  Ukrainians are clearly Slavic.

All Slavs are one, whether aware of it or not.

The Scottish appear to basically be Picts/Gaels and the English are basically Anglo-Saxons.  

What they have assimilated into their respective groups does not change that fact.

Describing fellow Slavs as 'Scotland to Russia's England' is fanciful and misleading.