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  1. On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians

    On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians is an essay by Russian president Vladimir Putin published on 12 July 2021.. It was published on Kremlin.ru shortly after the end of the first of two buildups of Russian forces preceding the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In the essay, Putin describes his views on Ukraine and Ukrainians. ...

  2. PDF Article by Vladimir Putin "On the Historical Unity of Russians and

    Microsoft Word - 220201_Putin_UkraineEssay.docx. Article by Vladimir Putin "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" July 12, 2021 17:00 During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people - a single whole. These words were not driven by some ...

  3. Putin's new Ukraine essay reveals imperial ambitions

    Meanwhile, Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets claimed the essay was Putin's "final ultimatum to Ukraine." Nobody in Ukraine needs reminding of the grim context behind Putin's treatise. Since spring 2014, Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in an armed conflict that has cost over 14,000 Ukrainian lives and left millions displaced.

  4. Contextualizing Putin's "On the Historical Unity of Russians and

    Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent essay, "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians," which was published on the Kremlin's website in Russian, English and Ukrainian, elaborates on his frequently stated assertion that Ukrainians and Russians are "one people." In what Anne Applebaum called "essentially a call to arms," Putin posits that Ukraine can only be sovereign in ...

  5. Putin's article: 'On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians'

    12 July 2021 saw the publication of an article by President Vladimir Putin, entitled 'On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians', which had been announced on 30 June 2021 during the President's Direct Line public conference with citizens. The text was published on the President's official website kremlin.ru (in two languages: Russian and Ukrainian).

  6. The return of the enemy: Putin's war on Ukraine and a cognitive

    In his now notorious historical essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" from the summer of 2021, Putin flatly — and not for the first time — denied Ukraine's right to ...

  7. (PDF) The Russian-Ukrainian war: An explanatory essay through the

    This essay seeks to explains Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, along with the subsequent response made by western countries, through the lens of international relations theories.

  8. PDF Great-Power Competition and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

    Russian forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, staging what Moscow called a special military operation. Russia's military had been building up along the border for months, and Western intelligence agencies warned of an imminent attack for several weeks. Russia was expected to go into eastern Ukraine, but few believed that an initial ...

  9. On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians: Essay by President

    Vladimir Putin's 'On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians' is a thought-provoking and timely exploration of the complex relationship between the two nations. Putin delves into the shared historical, cultural, and linguistic ties that have connected Russians and Ukrainians for centuries. He highlights the importance of recognizing and preserving this interconnectedness amidst recent ...

  10. PDF Russian Public Accepts Putin's Spin on Ukraine Conflict

    President Putin has repeatedly claimed "denazification" as a motive behind the military operation in Ukraine. He has compared Ukrainian elected officials to the Nazi regime, claiming that they oppress, and are even committing genocide against, the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine. This survey used the terms "denazify" and

  11. PDF Commentary Series on Putin's War: "War in Ukraine

    Essay by Michael Cox, London School of Economics, Emeritus . Introduction . The current war in Ukraine waged by Vladimir Putin's Russia has clearly transformed the world in the most unpredictable and dangerous of ways. Why President Putin launched his 'war of choice' in the first place when all the experts (though not

  12. PDF The Ukraine Russia Conflict

    Ukraine, assessing their own security and conflict dynamics based on Russia's newly aggres-sive policies and practices in Ukraine and the West's response. • To understand these newly emerging trends and dynamics, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) led a scenario analysis, taking a medium-term, regional outlook to identify the forces and

  13. Russia and Ukraine: 'One People' as Putin Claims?

    In July, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an extraordinary essay denying Ukraine's independent history, an argument amplified in a later Q&A.Former President Dmitry Medvedev followed this up with an open letter, using undiplomatic language to brand Ukrainians as 'people who do not have any stable self-identification', 'prey to rabid nationalist forces', and 'absolutely ...

  14. PDF Putin's War in Ukraine

    The war in eastern Ukraine is a Kremlin-manufactured conflict. The war's toll—6,200 dead, tens of thousands wounded and maimed, and over 1.2 million displaced persons—is the direct result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to establish

  15. PDF Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

    in his 2017 book Putin s War Against Ukraine . Putin s July 2021 essay is his ideological treatise for the February 2022 invasion. Russia invaded Ukraine because Putin has held a long-term obsession with Ukraine as a Little Russian part of the pan-Russian nation (obshcherusskij narod ), together with Great Russians and White Russians (Belarusians).

  16. The world cannot ignore Putin's Ukraine obsession

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally published his hotly-anticipated essay on the "historical unity" of Russians and Ukrainians, and it did not disappoint.. This 5,000 word epic doesn't contain anything entirely new, but it does serve as an important official record of the many myths and conspiracy theories that have long fueled Putin's obsession with Ukraine.

  17. The Ideas Behind Putin's War in Ukraine

    From third term, however, more ideational elements began to be expressed in connection with Russia's concrete foreign policy behaviour, including the 2014 military incursions into Ukraine. In the wake of the annexation of Crimea, Putin publicly elaborated his view on Russia's perceived historical rights in detail, claiming that Russians and ...

  18. Justifying War in Ukraine: An Analysis of Speeches, Excerpts and

    situation in Ukraine reached a point that his leadership could no longer tolerate. The. coding for this justification included "Russian pride", "protection of Russians abroad", "Russian values", "rights of Russian speakers", and the like. In December of 2013, Putin gave an address to the Russian people in which he.

  19. PDF Putin's Use and Abuse of History: Back to the 19th Century?

    by Leo Goretti. "Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space.". This is how Putin introduced the "decisions being made" in his 55-minute address to the nation on 21 February 2022, which paved the way for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.1 Several commentators ...

  20. PDF RUSSIA,UKRAINE F W O

    Russia's invasion of Ukraine, initiated on February 24, 2022, is among the most—if not the most —significant shocks to the global order since World War II. This piece assesses the stakes of the invasion for the core principles that lie at the heart of contemporary international law and the world order that it has helped to create.

  21. PDF Ukraine as Putin's Ideological Project

    It is hardly surprising to hear Putin legitimate the invasion of Ukraine with reference to the need "to protect the Russian-speaking population" and its "traditional values." In a verbose essay from last year he avers that Russians and Ukrainians "cannot live without each other." Ukraine, he continues, are a part of the united

  22. Read Putin's Speech and His Case for War in Ukraine

    Feb. 24, 2022. When Vladimir V. Putin announced Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a televised address on Thursday, he articulated aims far beyond those of Russia's prior assaults on its ...

  23. Mr Putin as a historian of Ukraine and Russia

    Dicembre (Torino, Italia), P. 114-129. President Vladimir Putin's vision of general history and Russia (and Ukraine)'s part in it is a subject matter for historical discourse analysis, based in the article on questionning source referentiality, strategies of generalizing, factual reasoning, political and social implementation of the general view.

  24. With Ukraine's resources, Putin would be unstoppable

    For instance, Ukraine possesses an estimated 500,000 tonnes of lithium reserves, according to Ukrainian researchers - the largest in Europe - which is a critical component of electric vehicles ...

  25. Putin's propaganda attack on Zelenskyy aimed to incite power struggle

    President Vladimir Putin is a top driver of Russia's disinformation. Putin's recent "peace" rhetoric coincided with the apparent boost of war efforts in Ukraine and threats to Kyiv's allies.