Publication

15 May 2017

The two articles in this edition of the RAD examine 1) the first elections carried out in Crimea in over a century, and 2) the diverging perceptions the Kremlin and Ukrainian people have of each other. The first piece details, to no one’s surprise, how the United Russia Party dominated the 2016 Duma elections in Crimea, but it also notes that existing disaffection with the party’s local leadership could undermine its support in the future. The second article then highlights how Ukrainians have labored over the last 25 years to disentangle their history and national identity from that of the internationalist, Kremlin-dominated “friendship of peoples” model that existed before.

Download English (PDF, 11 pages, 366 KB)
Author David Szakonyi, Taras Kuzio, (Editors: Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov)
Series Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue 203
Publisher Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University; Institute of History at the University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies
Copyright © 2017 Research Centre for East European Studies, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
JavaScript has been disabled in your browser