Items tagged with: Ukrainian nation-building

Victoire! French state news agency AFP adopts “Kyiv” spelling for Ukrainian capital

More and more international media outlets are switching to the Ukrainian-language “Kyiv” transliteration when referring to the country’s capital city as Ukraine seeks to assert an increasingly independent identity amid an eight-year undeclared...

Tuesday, 04 January 2022 02:53

UKRAINE AT 30: Europe's last great unfinished nation-building odyssey continues

Today’s Ukraine is increasingly democratic and European but has yet to become prosperous or live up to its huge potential

Monday, 19 July 2021 23:00

UKRAINE AT 30: Maidan’s metamorphosis is the perfect metaphor for Ukraine’s post-Soviet national coming of age

The dramatic reinvention of Kyiv's central square since 1991 as a place of genuine national importance tells the story of modern Ukraine

Monday, 29 March 2021 01:50

POLITICIZED POP: Exploring why nation-building Ukraine takes the annual Eurovision Song Contest so seriously

Ukraine will not participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest following a scandal over the Russian touring schedule of national competition winner MARUV. This is not the first time political considerations have overshadowed musical merits in...

Sunday, 17 March 2019 19:05

HISTORY: The Romanian who helped lay the foundations for the modern Ukrainian state

Petro Mohyla played a crucial role in the development of Ukrainian national identity and statehood in the seventeenth century

Saturday, 09 June 2018 12:02