Yushchenko called Ukrainians to serve like Mazepa

“I am sure that aspirations of Ivan Mazepa to protect national freedom and values, to fight for nationality and to revive the statehood of Ukraine must become an example of loyalty for our people,” Yushchenko congratulated organizers, participants and guests if the international scientific and theoretical conference “Epoch of hetman Ivan Mazepa in European history: myths and facts.”

Yushchenko believes that in the process of the state development and return to European civilized space it is important to get rid of imposed totalitarian stereotypes and to work out new and free from politics view on past events.