Taras Kuzio

The disintegration of the USSR led to Russians exchanging communism for imperial nationalism. Liberals were at the helm of Russian politics for only a short

Putin has had a long-term obsession with Ukraine, which became especially pronounced after his return to the presidency in 2012. Putin seeks to follow Tsar

Russians exchanged Soviet communism for imperial nationalism, rather than democracy. A pro-Western foreign policy lasted less than a decade in the late

Russian and Ukrainian émigrés were very different. The former sought to refashion the Soviet Union into a new union and empire and were indifferent to the

Since 1991, Russian political leaders and intellectuals have failed to develop a vision for a post-imperial Russian nation-state. The Russian ‘imagined

Since 1991, Ukraine has undergone three stages of the development of its national identity. In 1991–2013, Ukraine experienced a process of Ukrainian

Over four and a half years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine commenced in 2022, it remains illegal in Russia to describe the so-called special military

Obsession, myths and stereotypes about Ukraine led President Vladimir Putin and his entourage to under-estimate Ukrainians in 2014 and since 2022, creating a

In 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea but failed to engineer mass support in southeastern Ukraine. In the two Donbas oblasts, pro-Russian proxies were on