To understand Ukraine. The State of the Russian Ukrainian Studies

Abstract

This spring two issues of the journal «Russia in the global politics», totally dedicated to Ukraine were published. Highly appreciating this fact, the author tries to make the general vision how adequately Russian experts, whose articles were published in these issues, represent what is taken place there and how these presentation corresponds with the assessment of Ukrainian and foreign experts. In this article the hypothesis is put forward and proved that failures of Russian politics in Ukraine are caused as well by the state of research of Ukraine in Russia. The author comes to the conclusion that the attempts to regulate the crisis in the Russian-Ukrainian relations should be preceded by thinking over of the present ideas about Ukraine and about what is the real national interest of Russia in the relations with Ukraine

Keywords

• russia
• ukraine
• russian-ukrainian relations
• ukrainian crisis
• european union
• ukrainian republic