There were some people who claimed: > that from the perspective of ethnography, language, literature and ritual the people of Galicia, Kyiv, Moscow, '''Tobolsk''', etc. were all one Russian people > Tobolsk And do you know what Tobolsk is? > The town was founded on the site of the Tatar town of Bitsik-Tura Which was 17km away from Qashliq. And what is Qashliq? > Qashliq, Isker or Sibir (Siberian Tatar: Iskәr) was a medieval (14th–16th century) Siberian Tatar fortress, in the 16th century the capital of the Khanate of Sibir, located on the right bank of the Irtysh River at its confluence with the Sibirka rivulet. > the capital of the Khanate of Sibir In other words, they claimed that people of Galicia, Kyiv and Moscow were one people with...literal mongols from Siberia. And you know...I think I heard similar claims from russian govt not so long ago.