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| | ORANGE REVOLUTION :: Volodomyr the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) |
 | | and stretched northward as far as the Chud, Ladoga and Onega Lakes, southward to the rivers Don, Ros, Sula and Southern Buh, eastward to the valley between the Oka and the Volga, and westward as far as the Dniester, the Carpathians, the Western Buh, the Neman, and the Western Dvina. |
 | | Nestor the chronicler wrote that the war against them was “never-ending.” To stem the tide of enemy attacks, Volodymyr began to build towns and fortifications on both banks of the Dnipro, Ostra, Desna and Irpin rivers and in Left Bank Rus’ near the Sula, Trubizh and Seym rivers. |
 | | The sacrament of baptism was administered in the river, with mothers holding their babies in their arms. |
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