`A few neanderthal writers in the past have even promoted ``the Ukraine`` to reflect the original meaning ``the borderland`` in order to diminish the international political stature of Ukraine.  That's not bias if it is indeed true.   He is trying to promote correct English, not promote a usage deprecated from the Ukrainian SSR.  But the Russian Xenophobe around here never ceases to amaze me.  If you're looking for an authoritarian source: http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=805717  `