Nation-Building in Ukraine. Kiev´s Ukrainianizing Effect on the Power Elites from the East and South.
Journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
Year: 2014

The traditional east/west divide of Ukraine in terms of language, ethnicity, culture, religion and, not the least, historical memory, continues to nourish conflict and serve as a threat to the country´s integrity. The balancing of Ukrainianizing policies on the one hand, and the safeguarding of the rights, privileges and interests of the country´s large Russian minority on the other, has proven a major challenge to the shifting political leaderships in Kiev. Whereas a too nationalist approach to