Introduction. Ukraine’s Many Faces
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2023

Ever since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine in 2014, western commentators have attempted to explain events in the country through the lens of linguistic and regional divide.Maps of Ukraine split between a presumably Russianspeaking south-east and Ukrainian-speaking north-west inundated the Internet and were used by political analysts across the ideological spectrum. 1Moreover, this linguistic heterogeneity was also used to justify Moscow's occupation of Crimea and Russia's support for the tw