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Understanding the Narratives Explaining the Ukrainian Crisis
ACTA UNIV. SAPIENTIAE, EUROPEAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES, 11 (2017) 63–96 DOI: 10.1515/auseur-2017-0004 Understanding the Narratives Explaining the Ukrainian Crisis: Identity Divisions and Complex Diversity in Ukraine1 Lodewijk SMOOR Department of European Studies University of Amsterdam lsmoor@hotmail .com Abstract. The central argument of this paper is that radical and opposing interpretations of the Ukrainian conflict in politics and media should be studied as offspring of broader narratives . These narratives can be better understood by examining the national identity of Ukraine . Since Ukrainian national identity shows a high degree of diversity, it offers a rich source of arguments for any party wanting to give an interpretation of the present Ukrainian crisis . Narratives explaining the crisis often ignore this complex diversity or deliberately use elements from it to construct the ‘desired’ narrative . Firstly, this paper defines four overarching narratives used in the current debate: the geopolitical, the nationalist, the structuralist, and the legal narrative. Secondly, this paper shows how various interpretations fitting within these narratives are all one way or another related to the divisions dividing Ukraine’s complex national identity . Examining the underlying divisions helps to explain the appeal of differing interpretations of the conflict in the West, Ukraine, and Russia. Especially the nationalist narrative and geopolitical narratives show how the complexity of Ukraine’s national identity is deliberately used to construct a narrative . The combined study of constructed narratives and Ukrainian national identity thus provides valuable material for any scholar or policymaker looking for a deeper understanding of the situation in Ukraine amidst a confusing information war . -
Book of Abstracts
International Conference 13th Serbian Mathematical Congress Book of Abstracts May 22-25, 2014 Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia Organized by Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia in collaboration with: Mathematical Society of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia Honorary Committee (in alphabetical order) Dragoš Cvetković - Belgrade, Serbia Gradimir Milovanović - Belgrade, Serbia Ivan Gutman - Kragujevac, Serbia Miodrag Petković - Niš, Serbia Aleksandar Ivić - Belgrade, Serbia Stevan Pilipović - Novi Sad, Serbia Milosav Marjanović - Belgrade, Serbia Mileva Prvanović - Belgrade, Serbia Miodrag Mateljević - Belgrade, Serbia Vladimir Rakočević - Niš, Serbia International Scientific Committee Emil Molnar (Budapest, Hungary) David Blair (East Lasing, USA) Aleksandr Vladimirovich Arhangel’skii Dmitri Millionshchikov(Moscow, Russia) (Moscow, Russia) Graham Hall (Aberdeen, UK) Jan van Mill (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Hellmuth Stachel (Vienna, Austria) Boaz Tsaban (Bar Ilan University, Izrael) Sergei Abramovich (Potsdam, NY, USA) Giuseppe Di Maio (Caserta, Italy) Bela Stantic (Brisbane, Australia) Dimitris Georgou (Patras, Greece) Heiko Vogler (Dresden, Germany) Dragan Marušič( (Koper, Slovenia) Vasilios N. Katsikis (Athens, Greece) Francesco Belardo (Messina, Italy) Dimitrios Pappas (Athens, Greece) Manfred Droste (Leipzig, Germany) Victor Buchstaber(Moscow, Russia) Robin Harte (Dublin, Ireland) Anatoly Fomenko (Moscow, -
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor On “A Revolutionary Material” inherits the disciplinary culture of The Common Intellectual The history of the discovery of quasi- computer science, not of mathemat- Property of Humankind crystals is not stated correctly in ics—causes me to doubt the validity With respect to David A. Edwards’s Radin’s article [“A revolutionary ma- of this premise. article “Platonism is the law of the terial”, by Charles Radin, Notices, There are two reasons why the land” (Notices, April 2013), in which March 2013]. Actually the mathemati- computer science literature is more he advocates that mathematical re- cal theory came before the experi- prone to errors, including serious sults should be patentable: Can one mental discovery of quasicrystals. errors in important papers, than is really imagine a world in which some- The mathematical model for a mathematics. First, the tradition is one must obtain a license and pay 3-dimensional quasicrystal with ico- to publish mainly in conference pro- royalties every time (s)he uses the sahedral symmetry was first pub- ceedings, not in journals. Authors Fundamental Theorem of Calculus or, lished by my father, P. Kramer, and write under deadline pressure and for that matter, negative numbers? his student R. Neri in the article “On often submit their papers within periodic and nonperiodic space fill- hours (literally) of the deadline. Re- —Steven H. Weintraub m ings of E obtained by projection”, viewers are also hurried—they each Lehigh University Acta Cryst. Sect. A 40 (1984), no. 5, have to read and evaluate a couple [email protected] 580–587. -
Anatoly Fomenko Books
Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its Applications to Historical Dating Volume I , Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its Applications to Historical Dating Volume I: The Development of the Statistical Tools by A.T. FOMENKO Department of Geometry and Topology Faculty ofMathematics, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-7923-2604-0 (Volume I) ISBN 0-7923-2606-7 (Set of 2 Volumes) Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers incorporates the publishing programmes of D. Reidel, Martinus Nijhoff, Dr W, Junk and MTP Press. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Translated by O. Efimov Ailwork on the cover by the author Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Printed in the Netherlands Contents Foreword xi Preface xiii Chapter 1. Problems of Ancient and Medieval Chronology 1 §1. The Global Chronological Diagram of Ancient and Medieval History 1 1.1. -
April 2013 Table of Contents
ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) of the American Mathematical Society April 2013 Volume 60, Number 4 Remembering Raoul Bott (1923—2005) page 398 Errors and Corrections in Mathematics Literature page 418 Mathematical Methods in the Study of Historical Chronology page 441 Newton’s Laws and Coin Tossing page 450 Visualizing the impact of humans on the planet (see page 425) Open Access Journals Abstract and in Mathematics Applied Analysis Your research wants to be free! Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 Advances in Decision Sciences Advances in Mathematical Physics Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com 7 6 Advances in 9 15 Operations Algebra 768 Research 7 Advances in Submit your manuscripts at Numerical Analysis Hindawi Publishing Corporation3 Volume 2013 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com http://www.hindawi.com 2 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Computational and Mathematical Methods International Journal of in Medicine Game Theory Geometry Analysis Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 International -
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold 12 June 1937 { 3 June 2010 Boris Khesin∗ Sergei Tabachnikovy Vladimir Igorevich Arnold Vladimir Arnold was a preeminent mathematician of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century. Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theory, Arnold diffusion, Arnold tongues in bifurcation theory, Liouville-Arnold theorem in ∗Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada; [email protected] yDepartment of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; [email protected] 1 completely integrable systems, Arnold conjectures in symplectic topology { this is a very incomplete list of notions and results named after him. Arnold was a charismatic leader of a mathematical school, a prolific writer, a flamboyant speaker, and a tremendously erudite person. Our biographical sketch describes his extraordinary personality and his major contributions to mathematics. 1 The personality Family background. Vladimir Arnold was born on June 12, 1937 in Odessa (now Ukraine, then the Soviet Union) and grew up in Moscow. He had two younger siblings: a brother Dmitry, a physicist, and a sister Katya, an artist. His father, Igor Vladimirovich Arnold, was a mathematician specializing in algebra. (In particular, he learned modern algebra from Emmy Noether during her stay in Moscow in 1928{29). He was among the first corresponding members of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, recognized for his work in mathematical education. In the preface to [2], Vladimir Arnold recalled: I turned 11 in the year when he died, but I have not learned anything mathematical from him: instead, he taught me mountaineering and love for long journeys, wood carving and building huts of branches, fishing and skiing. -
Geopolitical Fantasies, National Strategies and Ordinary Russians in the Post-Communist Era
Geopolitical Fantasies, National Strategies and Ordinary Russians in the Post-Communist Era. John O’Loughlin Institute of Behavioral Science University of Colorado Campus Box 487 Boulder, CO. 80309-0487 Email: [email protected] Word Count: 12, 288 Biographical Note: John O’Loughlin is Professor of Geography and Director of the Graduate Training Program on “Globalization and Democracy” in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. He is Editor of Political Geography. His research interests are in post-communist changes in Russia and Ukraine, the political geography of Nazism, democratization, and spatial analytical methods in political geography. Acknowledgements: This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Geography and Regional Science Program). Thanks are due to Vladimir Kolossov of the Russian Academy of Sciences for many useful conversations on the subject, to Altinay Kuchukeeva for her assistance in the collection of the public opinion data reported in the paper, and to three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This paper was first presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, 6 April 2000 in the panel on ‘Geopolitical Trends and Futures at the Turn of the Century’. I thank Colin Flint for arranging this panel. Abstract New geopolitical writings that have developed in the post-Soviet period are predicated on different ideological and historical perspectives and against the formal statements of Russia’s place in the world from President Vladimir Putin and enshrined in the document ‘Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation.’ Four geopolitical schools can be identified, ranging from the fantastic notions of extreme Eurasianism to the reformers' goal of tying Russia firmly to the West. -
Anatolii Fomenko, Pseudo-History and Russia's Search for a Post
Lomonosov’s Bastards: Anatolii Fomenko, Pseudo-History and Russia’s Search for a Post-Communist Identity A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree Doctor of Philosophy From School of History and Politics University of Wollongong By Konstantin Sheiko 2004 I, Konstantin Sheiko, declare that this thesis, submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy, in the School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, is wholly my own work unless otherwise referenced or acknowledged. The document has not been submitted for qualifications at any other academic institution. Konstantin Sheiko 20.3.2004 ii Of you, there are millions. Of us, hordes, hordes and hordes Just try to fight with us! Yes we are Scythians! Yes we are Asiatics! With slanting and greedy eyes’. Alexander Blok, ‘The Scythians’, 1918 iii Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Nationalism 23 3 Fomenko 50 4 Kiev Rus 89 5 Mongols I 136 6 Mongols II 180 7 Ivan the Terrible 208 8 Conclusion 228 9 Bibliography 235 iv List of Illustrations Figure One: A ‘true’ medieval map p. 55 Figure Two: Muscovy and Tartaria p. 59 Figure Three: Cossack Columbus p. 66 Figure Four: Cortez Map p. 70 Figure Five: Russian Horde at Constantinople p. 72 Figure Six: Russian Tatar p. 189 Figure Seven: Kulikovo Field p. 195 Figure Eight: A pile of skulls p. 198 Figure Nine: Horde helmet and sword p. 205 v Abstract Anatolii Fomenko is a distinguished Russian mathematician turned popular history writer. He is the founder of New Chronology, part of the explosion of ‘pseudo- history’ that has emerged in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
To the Problems of Ancient and Medieval History and Chronology
Journal ol'Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis 7, Number 1, Spring 1994 SHORT REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS EMPIRICO-STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE AND NUMERICAL SOURCES WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY Volume one: The Development of the Statistical Tools. ISBN 0-7923-2604-0 Volume two" The Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Records. ISBN 0-7923-2605-9 ISBN 0-7923-2606-7 (Set of two volumes) Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. ANATOLY T. FOMENK0 Chair, Differential Geometry andApp#cations Department ofMathematics andMechanics Moscow State University 119899 Moscow, Russia. anatoly@fomenko. mian. su It is regretfiflly common that numerous historical events are falsely dated. For instance, statistical and astronomical analysis of Ptolemy's Almagest (in "Geometrical and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Ptolemy's Almagest," by A. T. Fomenko, V. V. Kalashnikov, G. V. Nosovski) proves that the date of the compiling the star catalogue in the Almagest belongs to the time interval 600-1300 A.D. This fact contradicts the standard date of the creation of the Almagest: 2nd century A.D. How is it possible? Chronology is what tells us how much time has elapsed beveen historical events and the present time. To determine a real chronology one must be able to translate the data from ancient documents into the terminology and notion of modem time reckoning. Many historical conclusions and interpretations depend upon what dates we assign to the events in a given ancient document. This problem is very complicated. The chronology of ancient and medieval history in its present form was created in a series of works during the 16th and 18th centuries, beginning with J.