Items tagged with: Ukrainian national identity

Russia’s imperial ambitions came undone because Vladimir Putin fatally underestimated the strength of Ukrainian national spirit

Ukraine’s low international profile hurts the country’s economy and undermines its diplomacy. It is high time to start focusing attention on improving outside perceptions of Brand Ukraine

New book aims to return Ukrainian narratives to the center of international debate over Putin’s hybrid war in Crimea and the Donbas

Recently unveiled Dnipro museum leads the way in chronicling Ukraine’s ongoing resistance to Putin’s hybrid war

For the past quarter of a century, Ukraine’s post-Soviet national identity crisis has been a constant point of political contention and source of social tension. What is the best route to future national cohesion, security, and prosperity?

Ukrainians should use the attention generated by this year’s 1917 anniversary to raise international awareness of the country’s early twentieth century independence bid

Russia has convinced many international observers that post-Maidan Ukraine is under the control of nationalist extremists but there is actually surprisingly little evidence to support this alarmist narrative. In reality, Far Right parties enjoy...

Did Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity succeed in making national identity more ethnically inclusive?

For centuries much of today’s Ukraine was part of the historically overlooked but hugely important Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Former Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Henryk Litwin explores the impact of this Central European superpower on the...

Ukraine’s 2013-14 popular uprising has become synonymous with the European Union Association Agreement that helped spark initial protests – but the demands voiced by millions of Ukrainians focused on basic human rights not EU integration

Ukrainian Independence Day used to be an ambiguous holiday but Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war has served to imbue the holiday with powerful meaning and patriotic poignancy

Identifying the icons that reflect Ukraine's ongoing emergence as an increasingly self-confident independent nation after centuries of division, foreign rule and imperial oppression

Nation building in the age of globalization: Russia's accidental but important role in the search for an inclusive sense of Ukrainian identity in the post-Soviet era

Ukraine could benefit from a clearer approach to English-language spellings of names and places and a little bit of consistency

Song dedicated to Crimean Tatar victims of 1944 Soviet deportation challenges myth of ‘Russian Crimea’ while reminding world of often overlooked Stalin era crimes against humanity

The war has made most Ukrainians see Russians as enemies not friends as Putin succeeds where generations of Ukrainian nationalists have failed in uniting the nation

Many Russians view the Kremlin's military intervention in east Ukraine as an attempt to right an historic wrong in a country whose post-Soviet independence they still struggle to accept