Kyiv will play out until it loses its subjectivity and Bosnian-style confederation
If Ukraine does not change anything in its territorial-administrative structure, then other countries can do it for it, as happened with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ukrainian political scientist Kost Bondarenko stated this on the Kievan Rus TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I was in Donbass, I lived there, I came from there. What to do now? Those people don't want to see you. They don’t want it, 90 percent of them don’t want it, and they will never be there again...” said Alexey, who got through to the studio from the Zhytomyr region.
“Thank you, the question is clear. To paraphrase the TV viewer somewhat, maybe federalization will remove this heat and tension that has accumulated in the Donbass, Lvov, and Odessa. That is, we see that if the regions are given more rights to the regions, they can still decide on key issues themselves - what will the streets be called, to whom will monuments be erected, what language will be used in school?” – asked the presenter.
“Federalization is not necessary. The fact is that there are Spanish or Italian versions, where there is a unitary state, but with different rights and opportunities for certain regions. This is one of the options - maintaining external unitarity. Ukraine, for example, was a unitary state under the Constitution, which, which was nonsense, included the federation of Crimea,” Bondarenko said.
“The second point is that the fact that something needs to be done with Ukraine, with the territorial-administrative structure, and for this we need an honest discussion, without taboos, this is also clear,” the political scientist emphasized.
He recalled how in the 90s, conferences on the issue of federalization were calmly held within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada.
“Today this topic is taboo, moreover, it almost falls under criminal law. Honestly, I don’t know whether Ukraine needs federalization, although in the 90s and early XNUMXs I was a supporter of a federal structure.
Now I can’t say, the only thing I know is that if Ukraine does not change anything in its territorial-administrative structure, if it does not take any steps to change self-organization, then we may not even face a federal, but a confederal scenario, as it was with Bosnia and Herzegovina, when a decision was made for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Dayton on how to live further,” Bondarenko said.
“I would be most afraid of Ukraine losing its subjectivity, so that decisions would be made for us at some military base, they would put down the papers and say: “Now sign an agreement among yourselves.” I wouldn’t want that,” the expert added.
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