A pejorative meaning of the word began to develop in the Viking Age, but is clearest in the medieval Icelandic sagas, written two or three centuries later â in the 1300s and 1400s.
The Ukrainian is a cyrillic alphabet, not latin, so it is similar to other Eastern Slavic alphabets (including Russian). While many letters are similar, most slavic languages have letters that are unique to their alphabets. The Russian alphabet includes such letters as Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, the Ukranian one doesn't include these letters.
Its mostly a Russian speaking country. This article is 2 years old, and we stumbled across it by accident, but it's very relevant to what is going on today. The language use map says a lot about how Russian the Ukraine is. It originally appeared at Online Russian, a site about learning Russian.