This unique book by the president of Ukraine discloses a lot of facts that will impress even the reader well acquainted with the country. The book attempts to unveil the "conspiracy of silence" around the sorest points in the relations between the two peoples connected by one chain and one laurel frond. The author meditates on Ukrainian and Russian national characters, problems of common cultural and historical heritage, mutual "debts", the things that should be separated, and the ones that must not be.
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