Just a question with no motive apart from curiosity. Is the name "Volodymyr" the same . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . Vladimir? One in Russian and on Ukrainian? I honestly don't know.

[elleng]

1. the names "Vladimir" and "Volodymyr" are variants of the same Slavic root.

The first is Russian and the second, Ukrainian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great

[PoliticAverse]

2. There's a Wikipedia page...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr

Volodymyr (Ukrainian: Володи́мир, romanized: Volodýmyr, pronounced [woloˈdɪmɪr], Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ Volodiměr, which in other Slavic languages became Vladimir (from Church Slavonic: Владимѣръ, romanized: Vladiměr).

Diminutives include Volodyk, Volodia and Vlodko.

[FakeNoose]

3. Someone told me once (long time ago) that the English version is Lawrence

I had an old friend who went by "Laddy" or "Larry." We got to talking one day and he told me his parents named him Vladimir as a baby, but he usually kept that to himself. I asked him where the "Larry" came from, and that's when he said Vladimir is the Russian version of Lawrence.

I never knew if he was BS-ing me.

[wishstar]

4. I have always heard that Walter is English version of Vladimir

and Lavrenti or Lavrenty is Russian version of Lawrence

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. The 'walt' does seem related, though the 'mir' bit is specifically extra

Waldemar, Valdemar or Woldemar is an Old High German given name. It consists of the elements wald- "power", "brightness" and -mar "fame".

The name is considered the equivalent of the Slavic name Vladimir, Volodymyr, Uladzimir or Włodzimierz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar

Walter is a German masculine given name derived from Old High German Walthari, composed of the elements walt- (Proto-Germanic *wald-) "power", "brightness", "forest", and hari (Proto-Germanic *χarja) "warrior".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_%28name%29

Laurence etc. are Latin, from a place name:

Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin Laurentius, a name meaning "man from Laurentum".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence

And that seems to come from the laurel tree:

The name "Laurentum" is either descended from many groves of Laurus nobilis (laurel trees), or, according to Virgil, a single "sacred" laurel tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentum

[Crunchy Frog]

6. I was told that it meant "ruler of the world" when I studied Russian.

I'm not sure about any English equivalent.

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Prince/Saint Vladimir of Kiev

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great

Vladimir's father was Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev of the Rurik dynasty.[10] After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk murdered his other brother Oleg of Drelinia and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help of his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk.[11] By 980, Vladimir had consolidated the Rus realm from modern-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarians, Baltic tribes and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988[12][13][14] and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.[10] He is thus also known as Saint Vladimir.

[Donkees]

8. The ancient root meaning of both names is akin to ''volition'' (will, freedom) ...

''Can you destroy a country that has the word 'freedom' in its coat of arms?''

See 1:05 mark at video: (volya)