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  • noun Plural form of Ukrainian.

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Examples

  • There are actual living human beings (namely Ukrainians) living in a democratic country (namely Ukraine) who have rights to choose for themselves.

    Bush, Putin and What Russian Bloggers Think - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • There are actual living human beings (namely Ukrainians) living in a democratic country (namely Ukraine) who have rights to choose for themselves.

    Bush, Putin and What Russian Bloggers Think - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • There are actual living human beings (namely Ukrainians) living in a democratic country (namely Ukraine) who have rights to choose for themselves.

    Bush, Putin and What Russian Bloggers Think - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • There are actual living human beings (namely Ukrainians) living in a democratic country (namely Ukraine) who have rights to choose for themselves.

    Bush, Putin and What Russian Bloggers Think - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The "Little Russians," as Russians traditionally called Ukrainians, are considered brothers, and their separation into an independent state is seen as betrayal.

    BIG BROTHER AND 'LITTLE RUSSIANS' 2007

  • It was a bold plan, and they knew that if at any point either the Ruthenians (later to be known as Ukrainians) or the Poles managed to mount an effective resistance, their Tartar cavalry, lacking any organized supply, would have to retreat; but if they could gallop from one farm village to the next, bypassing any troublesome cities, they had a fighting chance for success.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Ruthenians along the borderland of the ancient Kingdom of Poland and the present boundary separating Austria from Russia proper are also called Ukrainians (u, at or near, and krai, the border or land composing the border), from the Ukraine, comprising the vast steppes or plains of Southern Russia extending into Galicia.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • "But I can tell you," he said, his small frame quivering with remembered anger, "that the Ukrainians were the worst, they were everywhere and they did everything."

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • In fact, just as your article correctly points out as the basis for the Holodomor -- that the Ukrainians were the scapegoats for the Communist failure -- so were the Irish and other targets of British genocide the scapegoats for British frustration at their military failures, going all the way back to the 1500's.

    The New American 2009

  • In fact, just as your article correctly points out as the basis for the Holodomor -- that the Ukrainians were the scapegoats for the Communist failure -- so were the Irish and other targets of British genocide the scapegoats for British frustration at their military failures, going all the way back to the 1500's.

    The New American 2009

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