A February 29, 2008 meeting of Ukrainian Cossacks featured xenophobic speeches, according to UCSJ's Lviv monitor. Hetman (a Cossack honorific) Nikolai Pantelyuk reportedly announced that "we have a state, but it is not Ukrainian" and then listed Russian and Jewish oligarchs and other examples of "the non-state forming ethnic groups" that Ukrainians should ignore as they go forward building their state. Taras Chukhlib, a historian, went even further in his speech, condemning "the dominance of enemies of Ukraine, the betrayers of Christ in the government, business and culture who destroy both the state and the nation."

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