Russia-Ukraine, India-Pakistan: Two Existential Conflicts in Eurasia
... (India–Pakistan and Russia–Ukraine) is made up of societies that share several common characteristics. At some point, each pair belonged to a common economic, social, cultural and administrative space. The partition of the British Raj into the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan in August 1947 brought about fratricidal conflicts that claimed the lives of some million people, leading to the migration of millions, which affected all of South Asia on a larger scale and for a long time. For centuries, Russia and Ukraine formed the organic core of the Russian Empire, and ...