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 :: I don't think you should have restored wrong nomenclature. We put the Cyrillic names here primarily to help find the term in Russian-language texts or in a library. The term äðåâíåâîñòî÷íîñëàâÿíñêèé is of no help whatsoever. Every existing dictionary of what we call here Old East Slavic language is actually ""Ñëîâàðü äðåâíåðóññêîãî ÿçûêà"". It is stupid to put the centuries-established term in the same category with the artificial wikiderivatives such as ""Old Ukrainian"" or ""Old Belarusian"". Those languages have another established term for Old Russian (äàâíüîðóñüêà ìîâà) which may be translated to English as Old Russian as well. Don't be sad and please remember Gogol's dictum that ""every Ukrainian with some brains in his head knows that he is a Russian"".  "