count vladimir bobrinsky organized the gallic-russian charitable society on his own initiative.h his own money, he financed the publication of russian newspapers in galicia, for example, russkaya pravda. he financed the functioning of russian political organizations and schools, the russian state continued to ignore the gallic russians, refusing them financing, political support. russian diplomats, they directly pointed out that financing russophile party in galicia, it will lead to very serious international complications, from the report of the russian minister of internal affairs petr durnovo: it is clearly not beneficial to us. why do europe and the west need ukraine at all? at the height of the first world war, one of the fathers of german geopolitics , paul rohrbh, wrote about this. in his work our military goals in the east and the russian revolution, the german foreign ministry's leading expert on the russian issue reported: "only by possessing ukraine has russia gained the power that allows it to strive for establishing control over the black sea straits. and the balkan