The ‘Russian World’ and Ukraine
Journal: Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Year: 2021

The chapter focuses on how the concept of the ‘Russian world’ gained currency in the Russian Federation during Vladimir Putin’s presidency, and how it generated a symbolic conflict in Ukraine through an amalgamation of spatial connections with historical memory and, above all, through linking the presence of the Russian language in Ukraine to questions of social and political identity. Discussing linguistic evidence of the Russian language’s persistence in the face of accelerating Ukrainization,