Ukraine: between Europe and Eurasia
Year: 2014

Countries are like people: they exist in time and space. Napoleon once said
that ‘Geography is destiny’, and it is true with regard to Ukraine, whose
destiny is inﬂuenced by both politics and geography. Its historical fate was to
be established and develop between Russia and Europe. Like a planet that has
veered oﬀ its course, Ukraine is stuck in the gravitational zone of two large
geopolitical stars. One of them, Russia, has strong historical and cultural ties
to Ukraine, and can be described a