IDP’s are typically covered as a group receiving benefits, largely ignoring deeper issues such as their human rights, adaptation and trauma and the question of a sense of belonging.
New toponyms reflect the complex and multifaceted history of the city which arose in Cossack times and was formed by Ukrainians and other ethnic groups.
The centrality of the bloc in European security has been questioned by its absence from any meaningful dialogue on the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The roots of the change in electoral sentiment is found in the de-Sovietising of identity and the promotion of pro-Ukrainian memory politics which has taken place since 1991.
The outpost metaphor became a principle for a range of civic activity to inspire the city to turn towards a brighter European future, away from its Soviet past.
Jews no longer must hide their nationality or religious preferences as they did in the USSR and have the tools, institutions, and resources to continue to preserve and develop their identity.
The Kremlin never expected pushback from Southern-Eastern Ukraine’s Russian speakers and Jewish community because it never understood the internal dynamics of Ukraine.
This book challenges disinformation and stereotypes of Ukraine which portray it as a regionally divided country with the military conflict as a ‘civil war’ between Russian and Ukrainian speakers.
The Dnipropetrovsk and Dnipro elites, who are still rooted in their Soviet past, play a significant role in the development of independent Ukraine.
The roots of this artificial crisis lie in Putin’s pan-Russianist obsession that Ukraine is a ‘Russian land’ and Ukrainians are a branch of the pan-Russian nation. Everything else flows from that.
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