No. 9 – March 2013
Author: Eliseo Bertolasi
Language: Italiano
Keywords:
Ethnies of Ukraine
History of Ukraine
National identity
Download the Report (PDF) / Scarica il Rapporto (PDF)
Abstract
Ukraine has always been a “middle land” among nations, empires, states, religions. . . Its vast territory, mostly flat and fertile, crossed by the magnificent river Dnepr favored its condition ofcultural crossroad and clash field, at the same time. Today, a little more than 20 years after its birth, indipendent Ukraine is still building its national identity through a slow process of emancipation from being simply considered a regional variant ofthe Russian nation. At the same time, it is coming to terms with its internal differences, not so much ethnic as historical and cultural, trying to combine the two souls ofthe country: the one that looks to Russia and the other that aspires to Europe.