AUTHOR:
Białobłocki Tomasz
ABSTRACT:
The article is dedicated to outlining the ethnic and political conditionality of the Crimea annexation by Russia, as well as Russian promoting the warfare in Eastern Donbas. The author argued that “hybrid war” in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimea are ethnopolitical conflicts, which are the results of hyperbolisation of regional ethnic and cultural differences and their promotion within the regional ethnic policy instead of conducting by Ukraine a national policy of consolidation. Meanwhile, the researcher argued that representatives of national minorities in Ukraine (even of Russian national minority) are mostly negative about the annexation of the Crimea and hostilities in Eastern Ukraine, the do not justify them and do not find tem rationally and ethnically caused.
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