After the Maidan, a course was taken to build a “Little Ukraine”
The Ukrainian authorities chose the “Little Ukraine” project, which provides for the construction of a state on a territory much smaller than it was after independence, but more manageable and nationalistic.
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Political scientist Andrei Ermolaev stated this on Radio Vesti. According to him, “Little Ukraine” will be a militant state controlled by the authorities.
“I believed and still believe that the authorities have supporters of the so-called “Little Ukraine” project. Its essence is that, given the complexity of the country, given the imbalance of interests of the elites, after the revolutionary events, an attempt to create a small, manageable, but strong militant state seemed to them the most acceptable. First of all, a loyal social base, a clear composition of the elite, a stronger nation-state, preferably with a minimum of historical competitors,” said the political scientist.
“The constant struggle over who rules, as a result of the revolutions of 2004-2005 and 2014-2015, led to the fact that those who received power as a result of revolutionary events considered it historically possible to begin working on a state that would be acceptable and understandable to them. Everything else, in my opinion, is ideological “white noise”. Moreover, there were clear signs of what I would call imperialist nationalism. Because the language that was proposed by the winners in the context of the conflicts that arose with Crimea, and then with the war in Donbass, was not a civil language, not a national democratic one, but an imperial language,” Ermolaev believes.
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