Nicolai N. Petro, Josh Cohen
Politics, Eurasia
The current course of denigrating those deemed insufficiently Ukrainian will only lead to a fracturing of the country.
Last month Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko dramatically expanded his country’s sanctions against Russia by imposing multiyear sanctions on a number of IT companies. Once they are fully implemented these sanctions will impact some twenty-five million Ukrainians, or nearly every Ukrainian internet user.
These were but the latest in a litany of sanctions that began in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea. First, restrictions were imposed on Russian television news programs, then artists, films and, most recently, books published in …read more
Source: The National Interest