Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century
... of the ancient Russian state and the emergence, virtually for the first time in modern history, of independent Ukrainian and Belarusian states. 2 The process of Russo-Ukrainian separation has been particularly painful. Essentially, Russia finds it intolerable that a Ukrainian state whose sovereignty it immediately recognized in 1991 could have a government seeking integration into NATO and the European Union, limit the use of the Russian language, and actively promote the “nationalization” of the Russian Orthodox ...
31.07.2019