New identities in Ukraine
In a common event of the Center for Central and Eastern Europe of the Robert Bosch Stiftung of the DGAP and the GESIS Servicestelle Eastern Europe Dr. Oksana Danylenko from Ukraine got the opportunity to present her work about newly evolving Ukrainian identities. One of the main issues at the NATO summit in Bukarest at the beginning of April was the inclusion of Ukraine in the Membership Action Plan. But not everyone in Ukraine is in favour of the current westerly policy of the government. Because of different experiences in history and a spread in culture and language, people in Western Ukraine are inclining to Europe and NATO and people in Eastern Ukraine want have a closer relationship to Russia. This line-up is the fundament for Danylenkos research.
On the basis of quantitative and qualitative data surveyed through Interviews, Danylenko is investigating the formation of new identities in different regions of Ukraine. A special focus is put on the role of history as a foundation for the development of identities. Danylenkos findings are approving the internal split in Ukraine. Hence her dialog partners in the East of Ukraine believe that turning to Russia will have a positive impact on Ukraine, while the interviewees in West Ukraine are convinced that cooperating with Western alliances will be the best for their country. The majority of the inhabitants in the geographical center wish to have a state independent from every kind of pacts. Danylenko was especially anxious about the anti-Western attitude in the Krim area. Meanwhile the majority of Russian native speaker is discriminating the minority of people having Ukrainian as their mother tongue.
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