Ukraine: Geopolitical View of the Interested International Actors

... Ekaterina Chimiris: Russia-Ukraine Relations 2020: Equation With Many Variables. A View from Russia Ukraine first embraced the European path during the 2004 revolution. Institutionally, this path implies the country’s aspiration to join the EU and NATO. Recent amendments to the Ukrainian constitution legitimize this drive. The European identity is historically a superstructure above the national identity. Ukraine’s main problem is its aim not to follow the traditional procedure and therefore try to skip the phase of forming its own national identity in its desire to join the European family. Essentially, Ukraine is replacing the notion ...