Brothers Grimm or Brothers Karamazov: The Myth and the Reality of How Russians and Ukrainians View the Other
Journal: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
Year: 2015

&lt;p&gt;Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukrainians and Russians have been living peacefully in two separate and independent states for nearly a quarter of a century. Much has been said about the cultural and historical links between these two ‘brotherly’ countries, but also about the tensions between the two countries’ different perspectives on nation building and democratisation processes (Jakubanecs, Supphellen, and thorbjørnsen, 2005; Janmaat, 2000; laba, 1996; Prizel, 1998; Pugl