… The challenges ahead are evident in a survey we carried out of a representative sample of 1,800 Ukrainians in January 2013, before the Maidan. The survey was implemented by the Kiev-based Razumkov Center and focused on issues of language, identity and region. Clearly, subsequent events are likely to have had an effect on views of these issues, but the baseline data we gathered do give a sense of the size of the task at hand.
The picture of political identity in Ukraine that emerges is one of tremendous variation in the degree of commitment to Ukraine as a state. CONT.
Grigore Pop-Eleches (Princeton) & Graeme Robertson (UNC), The Monkey Cage