50 questions from the history of Ukraine that you have to find answers to before speculating on Ukraine-Russia relations

Most English-speakers tend to imagine both Ukrainian and Russian nations being very close, practically as the same Soviet people.
It is a common mistake due to lack of general knowledge and lack of informational campaign work by Kyiv Government to create the image of Ukraine.



To understand the essence of Ukraine-Russia relations you need to find answers to the 50 questions listed below:

1. Why is Kyiv called the Mother of Russian cities?
2. When were Kyiv and Moscow founded?
3. Why did Prince Yaroslav use interpreters to communicate with Novgorod locals in the 11th century?
4. How could Moscow rise in the time of the Mongol Golden Horde invasion when all other cities were in decline?
5. Why was Russia usually called Muscovy (Moscovia) and its citizens - Muscovites at least before 1721?
6. What's the difference between interpretation of Rus, Ruthenia and Russia; Rusky, Rusyn, Ruthenian and Russian?
7. Where there many contacts between Kyiv lands and the grand Duchy of Moscow before the 17th century?
8. Why did Ukrainian Cossacks need interpreters to communicate with Moscow tsar and his messengers in the 17th century?
9. Why were the envoys of Ukrainian Cossacks so amazed when they travelled to Moscow in the 17th century?
10. Why were books in Ukrainian ordered to be burned in the 17th-19th centuries?
11. Is the Church Slavonic language the authentic language or was it created on purpose, say, in the 19th century?
12. Who wrote the history of Russia as we know it linking it to Kyiv Rus princes?
13. Can Russian interpretation of the history be trustworthy if it was created in the 19th century to the order of then-current Russian emperor?
14. Why do Ukrainians understand Polish, Slovak, Belarusian and other Slavic languages while Russians do not?
15. How many times Russian tsars and emperors ordered to ban the Ukrainian language and to prosecute anybody for its usage?
    
16. What has been happening in Ukraine in 1917-1921, after the fall of the Russian Empire and before the communist raised to the full power?
17. What were the results of the dekulakization ("rozkurkulennia" in Ukrainian) and forced collectivization for the Ukrainian peasants?
18. Why is Soviet famine of 1932-1933 called Holodomor in Ukraine and called the act of genocide?
19. What were the causes and results of the Soviet famine of 1946-1947?
20. How were Ukrainian self-awareness and culture destroyed by the communist governments?
21. Why did Russian Empire and the USSR impose the Russian language via the method of terror?
22. What is russification?
23. What were the Executed Renaissance (circa 1933) and the Sixtiers ("shistdesiatnyky" in Ukrainian)?
24. How many Ukrainian schools were there in Kyiv/Dnipro/Donetsk in 1930/1950/1990?
25. How many Ukrainians were ordered by the Soviet Government to leave Ukraine for other USSR territories to work, serve in Army, etc?
26. How many Russians were sent to Ukraine in Soviet times?
27. How many Russians were brought to the Crimea in 1944-1945 to populate it after the Crimean Tatar people were deported?
28. What other deportations and ethnic operations were held in the USSR and are summarized as the population transfer in the Soviet Union?
29. Why was the Operation Vistula held by the Polish communist government in 1947 to move 482,000 Ukrainians to the Western border of Poland?
30. What were the USSR losses in the WWII?
31. How many Ukrainians were killed?
32. What was the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army)?
33. How many Ukrainians were killed in 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan war?
34. How many Ukrainians live in Russia?
35. How many Ukrainian schools are there in Russia?
36. How many Ukrainian TV-channels, libraries, cultural centres, newspapers are there in Russia?
37. Who caters information for Ukrainians in Russia?
38. Why do most Ukrainians are fluent or at least understand Russian while Russians tend not to learn Ukrainian even if they live in Ukraine for the whole life?
39. What was the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the history of Russia and Ukraine?
40. How did Ukraine lose its Patriarchy?
41. What was the impact of rising oil and natural gas prices in 1970s over the USSR economy?
42. Why the Golden Age of the USSR was called the Era of Stagnation ("Zastoy" in Russian)?
43. What has happened in Chechnya in 1990s?
44. In what way Belarus and Armenia were made dependent from Russia in 1990-2010s?
45. What war has happened in Georgia 08-08-08 (August 8, 2008)?
46. What are traditional KGB methods?
47. What is Vladimir Putin's profession?
48. What is the communication circle of Vladimir Putin?
49. How big the economy of Russia is?
50. How much is the economy of Russia dependent on the Western world?

Only if you are able to pass this quiz providing most answers, you are capable of commenting upon geopolitical issues in Eastern Europe and post-USSR countries.