Ukraine’s recent political crisis, a pro-Russian separatist movement and violence in the East has yet again drawn attention to the competing loyalties of Ukrainian citizens. Ukraine gained statehood in 1991 after the break-up of the Soviet Union, but the nation-building process for a new generation has been difficult. The country is politically divided along ethno-linguistic lines. Russian speakers, many of them ethnically Russian, are clustered in the eastern regions.
The regional diversity in Ukraine has been underscored by a centralised and what some have called “nationalising” system of education that has sought to overcome rather than embody the country’s cultural complexity. …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
