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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ukrainians re-discover their own language
The extensive free course of Ukrainian teaches basic vocabulary as well as working Ukrainian for those who need…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Humanitarian aid from ordinary citizens of Ukraine is the real proof of magnanimity
Dear apologists of “Russian world and spiritual braces”! You can endlessly tell me about all Slavs being “brothers”…