Ukraina - beroende eller oberoende stat?
aug 25, 2010 at 17:22
Ukrainas självständighetsdag firades igår, den 24 augusti.
RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe) har intervjuat Andew Wilson (författare av ”The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation” och ”Ukraine’s Orange Revolution”. RFE återger den senaste opinionsmätningen från Ukraina, som visade att hela 45 % uppger att de tvivlar på om Ukraina är en verkligt oberoende stat. Vad tycker Wilson om det? Tvivlar han?
"I might agree that Ukraine has had a very mixed record both on state- and nation-building over
the last 19 years. Its economy has actually been in trouble recently, and with so many sectors falling under Russian influence, there is a question mark about how economically independent Ukraine really is.
Though, on the other hand, it's interesting that Ukraine -- like a lot of countries in the region -- has developed a kind of neo-Titoist [eds: nonaligned] line in foreign policy. Ukraine doesn't act like the EU states of Central Europe who became member states in 2004-07. It's too independent-minded. It doesn't really fulfill the Copenhagen criteria as it should. And Russia also talks of states like Ukraine being difficult to influence or control."
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