>PM is also given the name Boris Chuprina, which means ‘Boris Long-Lock-of-Hair’
>“You can see that he has such a freedom-loving haircut, which underlines his personality and his strong will,” Andriy Lisovy, deputy director of the Chernihiv regional museum, told local media.
What’s the thing hanging from the tree? One of those weird EU bananas Boris used to write about?
I wonder what Johnson has been holding against Zelensky to generate all these positive stories
Borys Ivaniv?
What kind of Cossack doesn’t wear a mustache??
For those who were paywalled
>Boris Johnson has been made an honorary Ukrainian Cossack in recognition of his backing for Kyiv and given a name that pays tribute to his famously unkempt hair.
>The Cossack community in Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, also gave him the Cossack name Boris Chuprina, which means “Boris Long-Lock-of-Hair”.
>“You can see that he has such a freedom-loving haircut, which underlines his personality and his strong will,” Andriy Lisovy, deputy director of the Chernihiv regional museum, told local media.
>He said the decision to make Johnson a Cossack was a “sign of respect and gratitude to this outstanding person who has been supporting Ukraine”.
>The prime minister was also portrayed as the folklore hero Cossack Mamay in a painting by local artists that showed him playing the kobza, a lute-like musical instrument. The picture is on display at the museum in Chernihiv. A copy of the work and an official Cossack certificate have been sent to Downing Street.
>Lisovy said the PM’s habit of signing off on Instagram as “Johsonyuk” — a Ukrainian version of his surname — had provided inspiration. “It wasn’t our idea. He gave us a hint of what to do.”
>While Johnson may have fallen out of favour with dozens of his own MPs, in Ukraine he is wildly popular. He was the first leader of a G7 member state to visit Kyiv after Russia’s invasion, meeting President Zelensky in April. A street in southern Ukraine and an embankment near the Ukrainian capital have been renamed in his honour.
>Zelensky said that he was “very happy” that Johnson had survived Monday’s vote of confidence. “Boris Johnson is a true friend of Ukraine,” he said. “I’m glad we have not lost a very important ally.”
>Ukraine’s modern-day Cossacks are descended from the semi-nomadic people who roamed the region in the tsarist period. The word Cossacks means “free man” or “adventurer”. A famous 19th-century paining by Ilya Repin, a Ukrainian-born artist, depicts Ukrainian Cossacks writing an obscenity-strewn letter to the Ottoman sultan after defeating his forces. A group of Ukrainian soldiers recently recreated the image, substituting President Putin for the sultan.
Coming soon to a theater near you: Zelensky to be knighted by the Queen.
Boris just like a value version of Churchill, a terrible internal / peace PM but inspiring during war times
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>PM is also given the name Boris Chuprina, which means ‘Boris Long-Lock-of-Hair’
>“You can see that he has such a freedom-loving haircut, which underlines his personality and his strong will,” Andriy Lisovy, deputy director of the Chernihiv regional museum, told local media.
What’s the thing hanging from the tree? One of those weird EU bananas Boris used to write about?
I wonder what Johnson has been holding against Zelensky to generate all these positive stories
Borys Ivaniv?
What kind of Cossack doesn’t wear a mustache??
For those who were paywalled
>Boris Johnson has been made an honorary Ukrainian Cossack in recognition of his backing for Kyiv and given a name that pays tribute to his famously unkempt hair.
>The Cossack community in Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, also gave him the Cossack name Boris Chuprina, which means “Boris Long-Lock-of-Hair”.
>“You can see that he has such a freedom-loving haircut, which underlines his personality and his strong will,” Andriy Lisovy, deputy director of the Chernihiv regional museum, told local media.
>He said the decision to make Johnson a Cossack was a “sign of respect and gratitude to this outstanding person who has been supporting Ukraine”.
>The prime minister was also portrayed as the folklore hero Cossack Mamay in a painting by local artists that showed him playing the kobza, a lute-like musical instrument. The picture is on display at the museum in Chernihiv. A copy of the work and an official Cossack certificate have been sent to Downing Street.
>Lisovy said the PM’s habit of signing off on Instagram as “Johsonyuk” — a Ukrainian version of his surname — had provided inspiration. “It wasn’t our idea. He gave us a hint of what to do.”
>While Johnson may have fallen out of favour with dozens of his own MPs, in Ukraine he is wildly popular. He was the first leader of a G7 member state to visit Kyiv after Russia’s invasion, meeting President Zelensky in April. A street in southern Ukraine and an embankment near the Ukrainian capital have been renamed in his honour.
>Zelensky said that he was “very happy” that Johnson had survived Monday’s vote of confidence. “Boris Johnson is a true friend of Ukraine,” he said. “I’m glad we have not lost a very important ally.”
>Ukraine’s modern-day Cossacks are descended from the semi-nomadic people who roamed the region in the tsarist period. The word Cossacks means “free man” or “adventurer”. A famous 19th-century paining by Ilya Repin, a Ukrainian-born artist, depicts Ukrainian Cossacks writing an obscenity-strewn letter to the Ottoman sultan after defeating his forces. A group of Ukrainian soldiers recently recreated the image, substituting President Putin for the sultan.
Coming soon to a theater near you: Zelensky to be knighted by the Queen.
Boris just like a value version of Churchill, a terrible internal / peace PM but inspiring during war times