A Lenin statue being driven to the scrap heap of history A prime example that illustrates the active nation building attempts of the post Maidan government is that of the process of decommunization. In May 2015, President Poroshenko signed the Decommunization Laws, that had been passed through parliament a month earlier, into official decree. There …
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Does a Language issue actually exist in Ukraine? Common misconceptions debunked
Translation “One Country” in Ukrainian and Russian Language has historically been the primary battleground around which nation building has been centred on in Ukraine. The conflict between Ukrainian and Russian speakers’ rights has often been inflated by competing political parties in order to gather support and votes during elections. It should be noted that a …
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What Will the Future Bring? – An analysis of Youth Perceptions regarding Identity and Government in Ukraine
President Poroshenko greets Ukrainian Youths Having analyzed one generational and societal class’ reasoning toward a lack of identification with the state in the previous post it also would be appropriate to see whether Polegkyi’s claims can be supported by some empirical data relating to a different cohort of society. By using data from the Generation Z …
The Impact of Economics, Elites and the Urban Working Class on Ukrainian Identity
Notable Ukrainian Oligarchs – (L – R) – Dmitry Firtash, Rinat Akhmetov, Ihor Kolomoyskiy, Petro Poroshenko, Viktor Pinchuk Although civic identification with the state may have increased for some as explored in the last blogpost; for a large proportion of the working class and their oligarch superiors, identifying with the state is less of a …
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Identity in Ukraine’s South and South East regions – Realities and Misconceptions
Map of contemporary Ukraine Outside of the occupied territories, Ukrainian forces have established a united front against the Russian aggression. Local businesses, civil society and oligarchs have bounded together through a shared common interest focusing on the need to maintain order and stability in the regions closest to the conflict. The driving force for this …
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Identity in the current Russo-Occupied Ukrainian Territories – Realities and Misconceptions
Due to the annexation of Crimea and the occupied territories of the Donbas by the Russian military and local separatists, it has made it difficult to be able to accurately measure collective identity perceptions in these regions. As their separations from Ukraine were forcefully undertaken through military means, the new status quo of Russian control …
Regional Diversity in Ukraine: A Prologue
Euromaidan circa 2014 Having analysed the nation building attempts of the first 22 years of Ukraine’s history in the last blog post, it is clear to see that it had been relatively difficult to portray and promote a cohesive identity resonating towards the state. However, the positives that could be drawn from the period until early 2014 …
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A Divided Nation? An analysis of early nation building attempts in a newly independent Ukraine
Former Presidents of Ukraine – (L – R) – Leonid Kravchuk, Viktor Yanukovych, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yushchenko From the outset of independence in 1991, the Ukrainian nation building project ran into socio-political and cultural problems. If the government were to impose a Ukrainisation policy, it had the potential to cause ethnic conflict due to the …
The Ukrainian Nation Building Experience up until 1991: A Brief Overview
Ukrainians gathering and supporting independence by making the Tryzub (Trident) with their hands – circa 1991 Since its independence in 1991, the unifying factors which are supposed to have united Ukrainian citizens together have instead been in constant dispute between different parts of its population. This divergence in outlook towards personal and collective identities stems from …
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ZORYA LONDONSK 