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Please note that in the case of the word ‘Donbas/Donbass’ we left the choice of transliteration to authors’ discretion. Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives iv Abstract The intense and dangerous turmoil provoked by the breakdown in Russo-Ukrainian relations has escalated into a crisis that now afflicts both European and global affairs. Since the beginning of the confrontation, a lot has been written about its root causes, the motivations of the main actors, and possible scenarios for the future. However, few have looked at what came to be called the ‘Ukraine crisis’ from the point of view of Russo-Ukrainian relations, and grasped the perspectives of various groups involved, as well as the discursive processes that have contributed to the developments in and interpretations of the conflict. --- Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska is Blogs Editor with E-International Relations, and a member of the website’s Editorial Board. She holds a double MA degree in International Relations from the University of Kent and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Since 2012, she has worked in the human rights sector with various non- profit organisations in Ireland and the UK, focusing on areas such as ethnic minority, refugee rights and migration. She can be contacted at [email protected]. Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests are Russian domestic and international politics, European international relations and comparative democratisation. Recent books include The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism, and the Medvedev Succession (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky - Yukos Affair (I. B. Tauris, 2014), Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (Routledge, 2014) and Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (I. B. Tauris, 2015). He can be contacted at [email protected]. Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives v Contents 1 INTRODUCTION Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska 8 SECTION ONE: PEO PLE 9 ETHNIC AND SOCIAL COMPOSITION OF UKRAINE’s REGIONS AND VOTING PATTERNS David Marples 19 UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER UKRAINE: IDENTITY AND ALLEGIANCE IN RUSSOPHONE UKRAINE Nicolai N. Petro 36 BrOTHERS GRIMM OR BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: THE MYTH AND THE REALITY OF HOW RUSSIANS AND UKRAINIANS VIEW THE OTHER Olga Onuch 59 ROOTS AND FEATURES OF MODERN UKRAINIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY AND NATIONALISM Denys Kiryukhin 69 EVERYDAY LIFE AFTER ANNEXATION: THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA Greta Uehling 80 CrIMEA: PEOPLE AND TERRITORY BEFORE AND AFTER ANNEXATION Ivan Katchanovski 90 RUSSIANS IN UKRAINE: BEFORE AND AFTER EUROMAIDAN Mikhail Pogrebinskiy 100 SECTION TWO: pOLITICS 101 UKRAINIAN POLITICS SINCE INDEPENDENCE Andrew Wilson Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives vi 109 THE ORIGINS OF PEACE, NON-VIOLENCE, AND CONFLICT IN UKRAINE Taras Kuzio 123 THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS AND ITS ImpaCT ON TRANSFORMING RUSSIAN NATIONALISM LANDSCAPE Marlene Laruelle 129 AN UNNECESSARY WAR: THE GEOPOLITICAL ROOTS OF THE UKRAINE CRISIS Peter Rutland 141 BeTWEEN EAST AND WEST: NATO ENLARGEMENT AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE UKRAINE CRISIS Edward W. Walker 155 SECTION THREE: PROPAGANDA 156 ‘HYBRID WAR’ And ‘LITTLE GREEN MEn’: HOW IT WORKS, AND HOW IT DOEsn’t Mark Galeotti 165 Putin’s NATIONALISM PROBLEM Paul Chaisty & Stephen Whitefield 173 VLADIMIR PUTIN: MAKING OF THE NATIONAL HERO Elena Chebankova 183 DOMINANT NARRATIVES IN RUSSIAN POLITICAL AND MEDIA DISCOURSE DURING THE UKRAINE CRISIS Stephen Hutchings & Joanna Szostek 197 THE UKRAINE STORY IN WESTERN MEDIA Marta Dyczok 206 RUSSIA AS UKRAINE’s ‘OTHER’: IDENTITY AND GEOPOLITICS Mikhail A. Molchanov Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives vii 222 SECTION FOUR: PERSPECTIVES 223 WESTERN ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND RUSSIA’s PlACE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Richard Connolly 233 DemOCRACY AND GEOPOLITICS: UNDERSTANDING UKRAINE’s THREAT TO RUSSIA Paul D’Anieri 242 PERSPECTIVES FOR RUSSIA’s FutuRE: THE CASE FOR NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Edwin Bacon 251 DIVERSITY POLICY IN UKRAINE AND ITS NEIGHBOURS: RUNNING ON THE SPOT AGAIN? Alexander Osipov 260 CONCLUSION: MONISM VS. PLURALISM Richard Sakwa 271 CONTRIBUTORS Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives 1 Introduction AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA E-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives 2 When, on 21 November 2013, former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych decided to postpone the EU Association Agreement, few would have predicted that this, in consequence, would lead to a prolonged conflict in Europe’s borderland. What started as a peaceful demonstration of support for Ukraine’s pro-European course by thousands of people in Maidan Square in Kiev has developed into a vicious confrontation dividing families, communities and the Ukrainian nation. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), since the beginning of the conflict, over 500,000 people have left their homes looking for a safe place elsewhere in the country, and hundreds of thousands have fled from Ukraine, mainly to Russia. By February