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On 29th Independence Anniversary, Ukrainians break with Soviet past but see vague alternatives, social survey shows

The traditional 2020 sociological survey by Democratic Initiatives shows that 84.4% of Ukrainians would vote for Ukrainian independence…

byBohdan Ben

Vitaly Portnikov, Ukrainian political analyst, journalist and writer (Image: Darya Davydenko / Apostrophe.ua)

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Portnikov describes three often unacknowledged truths about Ukraine

In a wide-ranging and even programmatic interview with the After Empire portal, Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov describes three…

byPaul A. Goble

Belarus (green), Ukraine (yellow) and Russia (red)

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New poll results suggest where Russia and Ukraine are heading

Three poll results announced yesterday, two in Russia and one in Ukraine, merit particular notice because they suggest…

byPaul A. Goble

A monument to Volodymyr The Great, the king of Kyivan Rus from 980 to 1015 who baptized it in 988 and became a Christian saint, stands above the Dnieper River in Kyiv. (Photo: social media)

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Majority of Orthodox believers in Ukraine identify with Ukrainian church, new poll shows

A new poll conducted by the SOCIS Center, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre…

byPaul A. Goble

A Soviet placard featuring Stalin and peoples of the USSR, Ukrainians are represented by a woman in vyshyvanka, traditional elaborately embroidered shirt, on the left. The text reads, "Under leadership of great Stalin, forward to communism!"

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Growing Russian nostalgia for Soviet past far more dangerous than it appears, Kirillova says

New polls show that the share of Russians who would like to go “back to the USSR” is…

byPaul A. Goble

A bread queue in Pereslavl-Zalessk, Yaroslavl Oblast, USSR, 1991

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Ever more Russians want to go ‘back to the USSR’ but ever fewer Ukrainians do

Polls show that ever more Russians want to go “back to the USSR” but this nostalgia is not…

byPaul A. Goble

Data: The Ukrainian Society Monitoring Study by the Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences

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Sociological portrait of Ukraine after 27 years of independence extremely complex, Nikitina says

Since 1992, the Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences has conducted an enormous number of…

byPaul A. Goble

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‘Overwhelming majority’ of urban Ukrainians patriotic, poll finds

Ukrainian nationalism is often viewed as primarily a rural phenomenon, but a new poll conducted by three leading…

byPaul A. Goble

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A student from Ukraine’s Donbas who lived through war

Three years after the beginning of the de facto war in Donbas, Ukrainians are starting to fix the fundamental problems…

byOlena Makarenko

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Ukrainians now see themselves as victors not just victims, Podolsky and Bekirova say

Ukrainians have suffered so much over the last century as a result of the crimes of others that…

byPaul A. Goble

The map which was part of the 1920 Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic established in 1917. (Source: Project Gutenberg)

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Kuban might pursue independence but won’t become part of Ukraine, Russians say

Reacting to recent statements by Kyiv officials about portions of Russia being historically Ukrainian, Russian commentators say that…

byPaul A. Goble

Singing the national anthem of Ukraine at the Vyshyvanka March in Kyiv, May 2016 (Image: UNN.com.ua)

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Making Ukraine mono-ethnic – Putin’s greatest achievement and most fateful failure

Ninety-two percent of Ukrainian citizens now consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, an unprecedented figure that is the product of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainians re-discover their own language

The extensive free course of Ukrainian teaches basic vocabulary as well as working Ukrainian for those who need…

byUA TV

Putin and his massive propaganda machine do not tire to repeat "Russians and Ukrainians are brothers! Russians and Ukrainians are one people!" even though Russia invaded Ukraine's territory, annexed Crimea, conducts a masked "hybrid" war against Ukraine and its people using Donbas marionettes, Russian spy networks and criminal world. In this Ukrainian cartoon, the Russian man repeats the official "brotherhood" propaganda, all while stabbing the Ukrainian in the back (Image: social networks)

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Disentangling the ‘fraternal’ Russian and Ukrainian peoples in 1991 and now

Two new commentaries, one about Russia’s refusal to enter into any larger political structure in 1991 if Ukraine…

byPaul A. Goble

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The Holodomor of 1932-33. Why Stalin feared Ukrainians

The memory of Holodomor entered the Ukrainian national consciousness only during the perestroika years. It is difficult to…

byVitaly Portnikov

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainians’ strong horizontal ties a serious weakness when it comes to their attitudes about Russians, Shchetkina says

One of the greatest advantages Ukrainians have relative to Russians is the strength of horizontal ties in Ukrainian…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian journalist Valeriy Solovey: What Russians don’t like about Ukrainians

Russian historian and journalist Valeriy Solovey gives a tongue-in-cheek account of what motivates Russian dislike of Ukrainians… or…

byUkrainian media sources

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The Ukrainian inferiority complex and the referendum

People, stop cringing. We are changing our country for ourselves, not for the Gouda voter. And if we…

byVitaly Portnikov

Girzhov: The number of Ukrainians in the Rusian Federation fell by a million people. They did not leave, did not die, but simply started to call themselves Russian. (Image: radiosvoboda.org)

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Ever fewer Ukrainians in Russia because of pressure to re-identify as Russians

Viktor Girzhov, the head of the Ukrainians of Moscow Union who was recently denied entry into Russia, says…

byPaul A. Goble