With eastern Ukraine crippled by conflict between government forces and pro-Russia separatists, many democratic activists in Kyiv paint the struggle as having given birth to a new unified state.
They identify the call to resist what is widely perceived to be Russia’s aggression as having brought together a disparate mix of Ukrainian- and Russian-speakers, ardent nationalists, pro-Western reformers and even some who long for the old Soviet welfare state.
“Before, everyone said Ukraine is two countries – east and west. But now we’re becoming a political nation,” said Hanna Hopko, a young reformer on the front lines of the Euromaidan Revolution that …read more
Source: Voice of America
