Especially history for a country…
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The IMDb movie database says that Milla Jovovic is a Ukrainian-born actress, model, etc.
Then you think a little, and it dawns on you that in 1975, Ukraine didn't even exist.
You search, you look at who the parents are. And you blink.
According to port.hu, Milla Jovovic was born in the Soviet Union, in Kiev.
According to Wikipedia, his mother is Russian actress Galina Loginova, and his father is Serbian doctor Borgi Jovovich.
So her mother is Russian, her father is Serbian, only Milla was born in Kiev. Milla (short for the female name Lyudmila/Ludmila in Russian; Ludmilla in the West) is of Russian-Serbian birth. According to English Wikipedia, her birth name is Milica (Serbian).
I'll keep reading.
In 1981, Milla and her family left the Soviet Union and moved to London. He spent his childhood in the English capital, where his father worked, and in Russia, where his mother lived. His family soon moved to California.
So Milla didn't even live in Ukraine. He lived in the Soviet Union for a while. He could have been a Soviet citizen (he was), but hardly a Ukrainian.
Then I read further: his father, a pediatrician, and his mother, an actress, divorced not long after (according to the context, before 1988, but according to the English Wikipedia, only in 2000, at least on paper).
I must note here that Ukraine was created only after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, that is, in 1990. At that time, Milla, if I understand correctly, was already living in California (USA).
But then what made Milla Jovovic a Ukrainian/Ukraine-born actress?
And when will his birthplace, Kiev, be rewritten as Kyiv... Sorry, it has already been rewritten in the English Wikipedia; IMDb is lagging behind.
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Ferenc Mernyó
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