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Идентичность как причина появления сепаратистских тенденций (на примере Украины)
Identity as the Cause of Separatist Tendencies (on the Example of Ukraine)

Author(s): Kristina Viktorovna Juskiv
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Politics and Identity
Published by: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych UW
Keywords: Ukraine; Donbas; identity; separatism; security; Novorossiia

Summary/Abstract: The intensification of separatism in Ukraine in 2014 became possible due to profound changes in the worldview of a significant part of the population, which manifested in the changing of national self-identification. The purpose of the article is to clarify scientific ideas about the essence and relationship of separatism and identity on the example of Donbas. The article argues for the idea of the absence of an ethnic marker in the conflict in Donbass, where separatism is based on the specific regional identity, to which, through the efforts of Russian propaganda, the cultural, ideological, civilizational characteristics of the «Russian world» are added.

  • Issue Year: 62/2021
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 84-96
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian
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