Between the Soviet legacy and opportunism: minority policy in Ukraine
Year: 2013

The purpose of this chapter is to assess the nature of the post-communist 
minority rights regime in Ukraine and to investigate the reasons for it having 
assumed its current form. I accomplish this task by outlining the rather confused 
state of affairs that exists in terms of legislative output and locate the causes of 
this situation within the context of rent-seeking political elites who refuse to
acknowledge the needs of wider (civil) society and who in post-communist 
Ukraine exhibit many