Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine
Journal: Fennia
Year: 2023

The paper investigates the relationship between travel abroad experience and individual geopolitical preferences in three geopolitical fault-line cities in the eastern part of Ukraine. Employing binary logistic regression as a principal research method, we show that travel experience to European countries positively correlates with pro-European attitudes and corresponds to weaker pro-Soviet sentiments. On the contrary, travel experience to Russia is associated with somewhat weaker support for Eu