Items tagged with: Ukrainian national identity

The loss of Russian Orthodox authority over Ukraine would represent a geopolitical earthquake for Vladimir Putin and a huge setback for his imperial ambitions in the former Soviet space

The team behind “The Will” comic book franchise aim to create an inspirational and entertaining Ukrainian alternative to the potent cultural imperialism of Vladimir Putin’s “Russian World”

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

Australian Pete Shmigel argues that the suppressed traumas of distant and recent history continue to shape Ukrainian society negatively and are as big an obstacle to progress as more commonly discussed problems like corruption and the ongoing...

Defecting from the "Russian World": New nationwide survey demonstrates how emerging generation of Ukrainians embrace European integration and see Russia as aggressor while blaming Kremlin for war

New survey finds that most Ukrainians have never explored different regions of their own country

Russia sought to divide and conquer Ukraine in 2014 but Putin's hybrid war united the country as never before

Putin's Russia has consistently promoted ideas of Ukraine as an integral part of a broader Russian world while rejecting historic notions of Ukrainian sovereignty

Russian-speaking Ukrainians have played a key role in defending the country against Russian aggression but the ongoing conflict with the Kremlin continues to cast a long shadow over the future of the Russian language in post-Euromaidan...

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