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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
But Ukraine has always been the Ukraine ("the Ukraine is weak Newman!")
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Having had the misfortune of having had dealing with the government of Ukraine, I've had the opportunity to learn that this frowned upon by the locals.
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Is there some rule or is this another random English quirk?
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Seems like there's a tie to British colonialism somehow - the Levant, the Sudan, some others I can't think of right now - but it may just be a relic of historically referencing a region that wasn't a state, or was more than one state.
