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Mykola Riabchuk

I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ethnopolitics, Faculty Member

I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ethnopolitics, Faculty Member |

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Ukrainian media and society: still "not so free". Eurozine, 23 November 2001.

In this analysis of the Ukrainian media landscape and its preconditions, the author maintains tha... more In this analysis of the Ukrainian media landscape and its preconditions, the author maintains that "a situation, when people have plenty of rights on paper but cannot employ them in reality has largely persisted in the post−Soviet space. The only substantial difference between the post−Soviet states and the Soviet Union is that the latter had had a compulsory ideology". Rather than painting a negative or positive future in conclusion, he reminds that there is a future yet to be shaped.

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Ukraine: the not−so−unexpected nation. Eurozine, 4 April 2005.

Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" directed the world's attention to a nation formally brushed off as ... more Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" directed the world's attention to a nation formally brushed off as a Russian satellite state. The international press portrayed Victor Yushchenko's democratic challenge to the fraudulently elected Victor Yanukovych as the birth of Ukrainian independence. But though there's no doubt that Ukrainian civil society has come of age, is the independence movement as young as all that? The author gives a historical overview of Ukrainian relations with Russia, and argues that talk of an East-West divide along pro- and anti-Russian lines simplifies the reality of a culturally and ideologically eclectic nation.

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Die Ukraine am Scheideweg. Ist ein Erpresserstaat reformierbar? Osteuropa, no.1, 2005.

In der Ukraine hat sich eine autoritäre Herrschaft etabliert, die durch drei Elemente gekennzeich... more In der Ukraine hat sich eine autoritäre Herrschaft etabliert, die durch drei Elemente gekennzeichnet ist: Korruption ist verbreitet, die Geheimdienste spielen eine zentrale Rolle, und das Recht wird selektiv angewandt. Die Machtclique um Präsident Kutschma schreckte vor Wahlfälschungen nicht zurück. Die Chancen für Reformen und die Demokratie scheinen gering. Doch wie die Beispiele Serbien und Georgien zeigen, ist ein politischer Wandel möglich. Dazu müssen innere und äußere Bedingungen erfüllt sein: Die Zivilgesellschaft muß Druck von innen ausüben, die Staatengemeinschaft Druck von außen. Die Proteste gegen die Wahlfälschungen und die internationale Reaktion geben Hoffnung, daß die Ukraine an der Schwelle zu einem gerechteren politischen System steht.

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Is the West serious about the "last European dictatorship"? Eurozine, 7 February 2007.

The moral repugnance felt by the West towards the Lukashenko regime in Belarus is not matched by ... more The moral repugnance felt by the West towards the Lukashenko regime in Belarus is not matched by policy ideas. Civil society in the West should stop tolerating cynical realpolitik and put pressure on their governments to blacklist offending officials. As the example of Yugoslavia shows, more sticks for the government and more carrots for the nascent civil society could well bring about positive results.

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Farewell to the cargo cult. Eurozine, 4 May 2007.

The current conflict in the Ukraine is more than a quarrel between two Victors. Rather, it is a r... more The current conflict in the Ukraine is more than a quarrel between two Victors. Rather, it is a result of an "incomplete revolution" post-1991 and after the Orange upheaval in 2004. Ineptitude and infighting on the part of Orange leaders are to blame the comeback of Yanukovich in 2006, who has rapidly re-established the mechanisms of authoritarianism, writes Riabchuk. Now bribery, blackmail, and intimidation are back as a common means for solving disputes and influencing the media and judiciary.

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Bad peace vs. good war. Eurozine, 1 June 2007.

Ukrainian democracy might be highly chaotic and immature – but at least it's a democracy. Neverth... more

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Pluralism by default. Ukraine and the law of communicating vessels. Eurozine, 17 September 2008.

Ukraine's pro−western government coalition has collapsed after only one year. Viktor Yushchenko's... more Ukraine's pro−western government coalition has collapsed after only one year. Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the elections in September 2007, called after the pro−Russian "parliamentary coup", represented an opportunity for the gradual improvement of democratic institutions. The latest crisis is yet another symptom of the political "pluralism by default" that undermines Ukraine's long−term democratic consolidation.

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Another quarrel in the post−Soviet komunalka. Eurozine, 23 January 2009.

Russia and Ukraine have come to terms over gas supplies, but the agreement will not bring a viabl... more Russia and Ukraine have come to terms over gas supplies, but the agreement will not bring a viable long−term solution. It runs against the political and economic interests of the Russian elite, whose pressure Ukraine lacks the capacity to withstand. The EU, meanwhile, is reluctant to play the role of strong arbiter and to help those Ukrainians who would like to introduce transparency to a criminalized energy trade.

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What's left of Orange Ukraine? Eurozine, 4 March 2010.

Ukrainian democracy is allegedly back to square one after Viktor Yanukovych's election victory. T... more Ukrainian democracy is allegedly back to square one after Viktor Yanukovych's election victory. Though reform will not take place as long as political infighting continues, Yanukovych is equally unlikely to drop the European rhetoric and defer to Moscow. Ukraine's leadership will continue to "muddle through" − for the time being.

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Tymoshenko: Wake−up call for the EU. Eurozine, 28 October 2011.

The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reform... more

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Ukrainian media and society: still "not so free". Eurozine, 23 November 2001.

In this analysis of the Ukrainian media landscape and its preconditions, the author maintains tha... more In this analysis of the Ukrainian media landscape and its preconditions, the author maintains that "a situation, when people have plenty of rights on paper but cannot employ them in reality has largely persisted in the post−Soviet space. The only substantial difference between the post−Soviet states and the Soviet Union is that the latter had had a compulsory ideology". Rather than painting a negative or positive future in conclusion, he reminds that there is a future yet to be shaped.

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Ukraine: the not−so−unexpected nation. Eurozine, 4 April 2005.

Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" directed the world's attention to a nation formally brushed off as ... more Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" directed the world's attention to a nation formally brushed off as a Russian satellite state. The international press portrayed Victor Yushchenko's democratic challenge to the fraudulently elected Victor Yanukovych as the birth of Ukrainian independence. But though there's no doubt that Ukrainian civil society has come of age, is the independence movement as young as all that? The author gives a historical overview of Ukrainian relations with Russia, and argues that talk of an East-West divide along pro- and anti-Russian lines simplifies the reality of a culturally and ideologically eclectic nation.

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Die Ukraine am Scheideweg. Ist ein Erpresserstaat reformierbar? Osteuropa, no.1, 2005.

In der Ukraine hat sich eine autoritäre Herrschaft etabliert, die durch drei Elemente gekennzeich... more In der Ukraine hat sich eine autoritäre Herrschaft etabliert, die durch drei Elemente gekennzeichnet ist: Korruption ist verbreitet, die Geheimdienste spielen eine zentrale Rolle, und das Recht wird selektiv angewandt. Die Machtclique um Präsident Kutschma schreckte vor Wahlfälschungen nicht zurück. Die Chancen für Reformen und die Demokratie scheinen gering. Doch wie die Beispiele Serbien und Georgien zeigen, ist ein politischer Wandel möglich. Dazu müssen innere und äußere Bedingungen erfüllt sein: Die Zivilgesellschaft muß Druck von innen ausüben, die Staatengemeinschaft Druck von außen. Die Proteste gegen die Wahlfälschungen und die internationale Reaktion geben Hoffnung, daß die Ukraine an der Schwelle zu einem gerechteren politischen System steht.

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Is the West serious about the "last European dictatorship"? Eurozine, 7 February 2007.

The moral repugnance felt by the West towards the Lukashenko regime in Belarus is not matched by ... more The moral repugnance felt by the West towards the Lukashenko regime in Belarus is not matched by policy ideas. Civil society in the West should stop tolerating cynical realpolitik and put pressure on their governments to blacklist offending officials. As the example of Yugoslavia shows, more sticks for the government and more carrots for the nascent civil society could well bring about positive results.

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Farewell to the cargo cult. Eurozine, 4 May 2007.

The current conflict in the Ukraine is more than a quarrel between two Victors. Rather, it is a r... more The current conflict in the Ukraine is more than a quarrel between two Victors. Rather, it is a result of an "incomplete revolution" post-1991 and after the Orange upheaval in 2004. Ineptitude and infighting on the part of Orange leaders are to blame the comeback of Yanukovich in 2006, who has rapidly re-established the mechanisms of authoritarianism, writes Riabchuk. Now bribery, blackmail, and intimidation are back as a common means for solving disputes and influencing the media and judiciary.

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Bad peace vs. good war. Eurozine, 1 June 2007.

Ukrainian democracy might be highly chaotic and immature – but at least it's a democracy. Neverth... more

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Pluralism by default. Ukraine and the law of communicating vessels. Eurozine, 17 September 2008.

Ukraine's pro−western government coalition has collapsed after only one year. Viktor Yushchenko's... more Ukraine's pro−western government coalition has collapsed after only one year. Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the elections in September 2007, called after the pro−Russian "parliamentary coup", represented an opportunity for the gradual improvement of democratic institutions. The latest crisis is yet another symptom of the political "pluralism by default" that undermines Ukraine's long−term democratic consolidation.

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Another quarrel in the post−Soviet komunalka. Eurozine, 23 January 2009.

Russia and Ukraine have come to terms over gas supplies, but the agreement will not bring a viabl... more Russia and Ukraine have come to terms over gas supplies, but the agreement will not bring a viable long−term solution. It runs against the political and economic interests of the Russian elite, whose pressure Ukraine lacks the capacity to withstand. The EU, meanwhile, is reluctant to play the role of strong arbiter and to help those Ukrainians who would like to introduce transparency to a criminalized energy trade.

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What's left of Orange Ukraine? Eurozine, 4 March 2010.

Ukrainian democracy is allegedly back to square one after Viktor Yanukovych's election victory. T... more Ukrainian democracy is allegedly back to square one after Viktor Yanukovych's election victory. Though reform will not take place as long as political infighting continues, Yanukovych is equally unlikely to drop the European rhetoric and defer to Moscow. Ukraine's leadership will continue to "muddle through" − for the time being.

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Tymoshenko: Wake−up call for the EU. Eurozine, 28 October 2011.

The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reform... more

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Ukrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation, in: Dobrota Pucherova and Robert Gafrik (eds.), Postcolonial East-Central Europe: Essays on Literature and Culture (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015). p. 337-355.

Ukraine’s postcommunist/postcolonial development represents a highly ambiguous case largely deter... more Ukraine’s postcommunist/postcolonial development represents a highly ambiguous case largely determined by the country’s peculiar regional composition and the very different historical (political, social and cultural) experiences of each region. Ukraine is probably the only postcommunist nation where all three types of colonization may be discerned. Whereas the western part of the country had already acquired a strong national identity by the time of the Soviet occupation and therefore never internalized the feeling of cultural inferiority vis-à-vis the occupiers, southeast Ukraine represents the opposite case as a no-man’s-land that experienced settler colonization under imperial auspices. The centre, however, differs from both the west and the southeast because it experienced a dynastic type of colonization with its own peculiarities starting in the 18th century. All of this has given rise to today’s complex interactions of different identities and nationalisms, primarily of the ‘aboriginal’ and ‘Creole’ types, which inhere in different models of cultural development: postcolonial, anti-colonial, and neo-colonial. The paper examines the interactions of the respective discourses in the cultural and political fields as related specifically to identity issues and culture and language policies.

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ОСОБА У КОНТЕКСТІ ЧАСУ. Книга на пошану Лариси Нагорної

by Світлана Набок, Станіслав Кульчицький, and Mykola Riabchuk

Книга містить статті колег та учнів Лариси Нагорної, яка є однією з основоположниць сучасної етн... more Книга містить статті колег та учнів Лариси Нагорної, яка є однією з основоположниць сучасної етнополітології. Розглядаються актуальні проблеми історичної пам’яті, теоретичні та прикладні виміри, її феноменологічні та структурні особливості. Висвітлюються важливі аспекти суспільних та політичних трансформацій, тенденції розвитку політичної системи та політичних дискурсів сучасної України. У збірнику також представлені дослідження проблем української етнополітики . Книга розрахована на фахівців, а також на широкий читацький загал.

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Ambiguous Nation Building. Russkii vopros, no.3, 2013.

by Микола Рябчук and Mykola Riabchuk

Review article on Nelly Bekus. Struggle over Identity. The Official and the Alternative “Belarusi... more

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Ambiguous Nation Buiding

Review of Nelly Bekus. Struggle over Identity. The Official and the Alternative “Belarusianness”.... more

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Review of David R. Marples, Frederick V. Mills (eds.), Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Analyses of a Civil Revolution.

Review of David R. Marples, Frederick V. Mills (eds.), Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Analyses of a Civil ... more

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Book review: Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk, eds. Europe’s Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine Between Russia and the European Union.

Review of Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk, eds. Europe’s Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, an... more Review of Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk, eds. Europe’s Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine Between Russia and the European Union. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 268 pp. $79.95, cloth. Published in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes Vol. LI, No. 4, December 2009.

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Ambiguous Borderland

Review article on Tatiana Zhurzhenko's Borderlands into Bordered Lands. Geopolitics of Identity i... more

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Mykola Riabchuk: Ukraine's Turbulent Past between Hagiography and Demonization

by Andreas Umland and Mykola Riabchuk

Western scolars criticize Ukraine for its selective national memory policies. Moscow demonizes Uk... more Western scolars criticize Ukraine for its selective national memory policies. Moscow demonizes Ukrainian national liberation groups like OUN and UPA. Ukraine has the difficult task to be open on war crimes while fighting a Soviet narrative that supports outright Russian agression, says Ukrainian political scientist Mykola Riabchuk. His answer to the German researcher Andreas Umland: criticize, but don't generalize.

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