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Cross‐border cooperation and transformation of regional identities in the Ukrainian–Russian borderlands: towards a Euroregion “Slobozhanshchyna”? Part 1

Pages 207-232 | Published online: 23 Jan 2007
 

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* This article was written while the author was a Lise Meitner Fellow at the Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna. The author is grateful to Professor Andreas Kappeler for comments on the first draft, which was presented at the Eighth Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, Harriman Institute, New York, 3–5 April 2003.

Natalia Parkhomenko and Oleksandr Sushko, “Kordony Ukrainy: symvol nezavershenoho derzhavotvorennia,” Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 26, 14–20 July, 2001.

“The Legal Status of the Russian–Ukrainian Border: Problems and Prospects,” Borders of Ukraine. Effective Policy Implementation. Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, <http://borders.cpcfpu.org.ua/eng/analytics/index.shtml> .

“Expert Assessments and Public Opinion Concerning the Border Policy of Ukraine,” Borders of Ukraine, op. cit.

Mykhaylo Mishchenko and Valeriy Khmelko, “Dynamika stavlennia hromadian Ukrainy do problem ukrainsko–rosiyskyh vidnosyn,” <www.kiis.com.ua/130303/main.html> .

“Borders of Ukraine: An Unfinished Area of a Decade State Building,” Borders of Ukraine, op. cit.

Roman Szporluk, “Reflections on Ukraine after 1994: the Dilemmas of Nationhood,” in Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000), p. 332.

“The Legal Status of the Russian–Ukrainian Border: Problems and Prospects,” Borders of Ukraine, op. cit.

“Yevhen Marchuk: Terorysm i natsionalna bezpeka,” interview with Yevhen Marchuk, <www.marchuk.kiev.ua/ua/94p.html> .

Vladimir Kolossov and Nikolay Mironenko, Geopolitika i politicheskaia geografia (Moscow: Aspekt‐Press, 2002), p. 346.

Volodymyr Kravchenko, “Kamin spotykannia na ukrainsko–rosiiskomu prykordonni,” Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 3, 25–31 January, 2003.

Ivan Sahaidachny, “Samit neformaliv,” Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 4, 1–7 February, 2003.

Yulia Mostova, “Buldozery bez kravatok,” Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 41, 25–31 October, 2003.

Oleksandr Derhachov, “Vazhkyi khrest istorychnoi druzhby,” Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 44, 15–21 November, 2003.

Vladimir Kolossov and Aleksey Kiryukhin, “Prigranichnoe sotrudnichestvo v rossiysko–ukrainskikh otnosheniakh,” Politia, No. 1 (19), 2001, pp. 141–165.

Kolossov and Kiryukhin, “Prigranichnoe sotrudnichestvo v rossiysko–ukrainskikh otnosheniakh,” pp. 142–150.

V. Kuznichevskiy, “Pochemy delovye krygi Ukrainy interesuiut rossiyskogo prezidenta, a belorusskie—net?” Evraziyskiy vestnik, <www.e‐journal.ru/p_soyz‐st2–21.html> .

Slobozhanskyi krai, 7 November 2002, p. 1.

Vladimir Kaganskiy, Kulturnyi ladshaft I sovetskoe obitaemoe prostranstvo (Moscow: NLO, 2001), p. 401.

Kolossov and Kiryukhin, “Prigranichnoe sotrudnichestvo v rossiysko–ukrainskikh otnosheniakh,” p. 153.

Derhachov, “Vazhkyi khrest istorychnoi druzhby.”

Mykola Riabchuk, “Dvoistist chy dvoznachnist: Ukraina iak politychna (de)konstruktsia,” Suchasnist', No. 11, 2002, pp. 50–63.

Inna Pidluska, “Ukraine and the EU: What Prospects for Integration,” in Ann Lewis, ed., The EU and Ukraine. Neighbors, Friends, Partners? (London: Federal Trust for Education and Research, 2002), pp. 183–197.

For the academic discussion on the perspectives of Ukraine's European integration see, for example, Juliane Besters‐Dilger, Die Ukraine in Europa. Aktuelle Lage, Hintergruende und Perspektiven (Koeln/Weimar/Wien: Boehlau, 2003).

Bogumila Berdychowska, Przemyslaw Zurowskivel Grajewski and Grzegorz Gromadzki, New Neighborhood—New Association. Ukraine and the European Union at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Warsaw: Stefan Batory Foundation, 2002), p. 11.

Ibid.

Anatoliy Zlenko, “Ukraine and the EU. It Takes Two to Tango,” in Ann Lewis, ed., The EU and Ukraine. Neighbors, Friends, Partners? (London: Federal Trust for Education and Research, 2002), pp. 21, 24.

Petro Burkovsky, “Okhorontsi prozorosti. EC ta NATO daiut Ukraini shche odyn shans prykryty sebe zi skhodu,” Polityka i Kultura, No. 17, pp. 15–17, 2002.

As for Russia, it was stressed in the Communication that “a new neighborhood policy will only constitute one pillar of the overall EU/Russia strategic partnership” (Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament, “Wider Europe—Neighborhood: A New Framework for Relations with Our Eastern and Southern Neighbors, Brussels, 11 March 2003, p. 5, <http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_ relations/we/doc/com03_104_en.pdf>.)

Breffni O'Rourke, “EU: Prodi Sets out Vision of ‘Ring of Friends’, Closer Ties with Neighbors,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, <http://rferl.org/nca/features/2003/01/31012003192138.asp> .

Country Strategy Paper 2002–2006, National Indicative Programme 2002–2003, p. 15, <http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/ukraine/csp/index.htm> .

Inna Pidluska, “Justice and Home Affairs beyond enlargement. What Kind of Border?” in Ann Lewis, ed., The EU and Ukraine. Neighbors, Friends, Partners? (London: Federal Trust for Education and Research, 2002), p. 247.

Country Strategy Paper 2002–2006, p. 19.

Launched in 1991, the TACIS Programme is a European Union initiative for the New Independent States and Mongolia, which fosters the development of economic and political links between the European Union and these partner countries.

“Na rosiysko‐ukrainskomu kordoni vyprobouiut komp'uternyi metod vylovu nelegaliv,” <http://ukr.for‐ua.com/news/2002/04/19/144651.html> .

Serhiy Khanin, “Ievrosoyuz dopomahaie ukrainskym prykordonnykam i sobi,” Den, No. 191, 19 October, 2002.

Marco Bojcun, “The European Union's Perspectives on the Ukrainian–Russian Border,” in Ukrainsko‐rosiyske porubizzia: formuvannia sotsialnoho ta kulturnoho prostoru v istorii i suchasniy politytsi (Kyiv: Kennan Institute, 2003), pp. 17–33.

Anatoli Baronin, “Border Closed?” Central European Review, Vol. 3, No. 11, 2001, <www.ce‐review.org/01/11/baronin11.html > .

Halyna Iavorska, “Pro perspektyvy ‘statusu susidstva’ u vidnoshenniakh Ukrainy z EC, abo chy varto vidmovliatysia vid synytsi v rukakh, iakshcho za zhuravlem letity—marna pratsia,” Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 3, 25–31 January, 2003.

Serhiy Astakhov, “Prykordonni viyska Ukrainy tsikavliat Ievrosoyz,” Den, No. 18, 30 January, 2002.

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament, “Wider Europe—Neighborhood: A New Framework for Relations with Our Eastern and Southern Neighbors,” p. 8.

“Chto takoe Russkiy Blok i chego on dobivaetsia. Ideologicheskie voprosy,” election campaign materials, 2002.

Vladimir Alekseev, “Vandeia,” in Nikolai Shulga et al., eds, Dialog ukrainskoi i russkoi kultur v Ukraine, Materialy IV mezhdunarodnoi prakticheskoi konferentsii (9–10 December 1999), (Kyiv: Funds for the Support of Russian Culture in Ukraine, 2000), pp. 66–75.

Vladimir Kolossov, “ ‘Primordialism’ i sovremennoe natsionalno‐gosudarstvennoe stroitelstvo,” Polis, No. 3, 1998, p. 105.

Fedir Zastavnya, Ukrainski etnichni zemli (Lviv, Ukraine: Svit, 1993).

Yuri Loza, “Ukrainsko–rosiyska etnichna mezha i suchasni kordony ta terytorialni pretenzii,” Ukrainska spadshchyna, <www.heritage.com.ua/istorija/doslidzhennja/ukrros/ukrros01.htm> .

UWC Commission on Human and Civil Rights, Memorandum to Max van der Stoel, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities regarding the situation of the Ukrainian national minority in Russia, <http://ukrainianworldcongress.org./rights/sto00–08.shtml> .

Yaroslava Muzychenko, “My vlashtuvaly sviy malenky: Radiansky Soyz,” Ukraina moloda, 21 January 2003.

Ibid.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Kak nam obustroit Rossiu,” Komsomolskaia pravda, 18 September 1990; Aleksandr Dugin, Osnovy geopolitiki. Geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii (Moscow: Arctogeia‐Tsentr, 1999).

Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 298–306.

But if reunification according to the Belarusian model is not possible, there is always an option for encouraging federalism and then secession of the Russian‐speaking regions of Ukraine—see, for example, the roundtable discussion “Ukraine—Strategic Partner, Geopolitical Competitor or Hostile State?” CIS Institute, <http://e‐journal.ru/p_bzarub‐st3–2.html> .

Konstantin Zatulin and Aleksandr Sevastianov, “Rossiysko–ukrainskiy dogovor: obman veka,” Nezavisimaia Gazeta, 26 January 1999.

Konstantin Zatulin and Aleksandr Sevastianov, “ ‘Druzhba, sotrudnichestvo, partnerstvo’ mezhdy Rossiey i Ukrainoy … Dva goda spustia posle obmana v proshlom veke,” NG‐Sodruzhestvo, 31 January 2001.

Oleg Varfolomeyev, “Notes from Kiev: Where Have All Those Russians gone?” Transitions On‐line, 5 February 2003, <www.tol.cz> .

“Parlamentskie slushania. Rossiysko–ukrainskoe sotrudnichestvo: dinamika razvitia posle vstuplenia v silu Dogovora o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i partnerstve mezhdu RF I Ukrainoy,” Analiticheskiy vestnik, No. 7 (119), 2000, pp. 34–36.

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Tatiana Zhurzhenko Footnote*

* This article was written while the author was a Lise Meitner Fellow at the Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna. The author is grateful to Professor Andreas Kappeler for comments on the first draft, which was presented at the Eighth Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, Harriman Institute, New York, 3–5 April 2003.

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