Ukraine at a crossroads

Today, Ukraine is at a crossroads. She, in fact, is a split state. Western Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine and Crimea are relatively clearly distinguished. They are characterized by various foreign policy priorities. In the west of Ukraine, historically closer to Poland, pro -European and Pronatovsky views prevail today. The East for objective historical reasons is closer to Russia.

It is difficult to determine which of the Ukrainian regions will win: the one that President Viktor Yushchenko symbolizes, or the one who symbolizes Viktor Yanukovych.

So far, Ukraine cannot be considered an independent national project; If only suddenly it does not turn out that the struggle for pro -Western independent Ukraine or Ukraine is not an integral, organic part of this project. If so, then you can hardly find something equally pernicious for Ukraine. Upon preservation and conservation of such a geopolitical fault, Ukrainians will never be able to live in relatively normal conditions, and they will also not be able to enter the family of European peoples.

The best option for the development of Ukraine is to turn into a single whole European state. But at the same time, it must be understood that Europe does not end on the Dnieper, but includes Russia. Ukraine needs to look for a path uniting most Ukrainians on the basis of internal consent with their own history, which is connected with Russia in the overwhelming part. Today, instead of finding a consensus, differentiation occurs, often acquiring an aggressive character.

It may well be that for Ukraine the path to Europe lies through Russia, through some interaction, accumulation, unification with Russia, but on one condition: between Russia and the European Union, negotiations necessary in this case will be held, which does not imply Russia to join the European Union. Obviously, the rationalization of relations between Europe and Russia is necessary, then the place of Ukraine would be determined by the quality of relations between Russia and the European Union, and not with anything else.