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Far from revisionist, such historians are in fact the continuators of a long tradition seeped in colonialist assumptions about non-Russians in general and Ukrainians in particular.—Alexander J. Motyl, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2016
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borrowed from Medieval Latin continuātor, from Latin continuāre "to continue" + -tor, agent suffix
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