AUTHOR:
Tomasz Białobłocki
ABSTRACT:
The article is devoted to analyzing the evolution of political and legal status of the Russian minority in the ethnonational legislation of state entities on the historical territory of Ukraine (1917–1990). The author found that the current (since 1991) peculiarities of the politicization of the Russian minority in Ukraine cannot be finalized without the knowledge of the parameters of its outlining in the evolutionary (before 1990) cut, in particular through the prism of aware- ness of the dynamics of changing of its political and legal status in the ethnonational legislation of state formations on the historical territory of Ukraine. It was established that the formation of the ethnopolitical legislation and the evolution of political and legal status of the Russian minority in the ethnonational legislation of state entities on the historical territory of Ukraine in 1917–1990 were step by step. They were initiated, then modified and even annulled by the fact of the formation and development of the constitutional and legal status of national minorities during the period of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, Hetmanate of Pavlo Skoropadsky, the Directory of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and only thereafter of the independent Ukraine. These milestones are the stages of the formation of political and legal status of the Russian minority in the context of the current ethnopolitical legislation of Ukraine.
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