Ukraine crisis: Trends and Perspectives

The crisis in Ukraine has become a tragedy, as is evidenced by the thousands of people who have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees. It will alter the future of Ukraine, Eu-rope, Eurasia and possibly the world. The crisis began in the fall of 2013 as a public response to the authorities’ ill-advised policy and the greed of the elite. However, clumsy assistance provid-ed by concerned «partners» turned the crisis into a coup, a power grab and subsequent chaos, which quickly spread across Ukraine, one of Europe’s largest countries. Months later, Ukraine is still fighting a bloody civil war and humanitarian catastrophe amid an increasingly destructive economic crisis. However, few have looked at what came to be called the ‘Ukraine crisis’ from the point of view of Russo-Ukrainian relations, and grasped the perspectives of various groups involved, as well as the discursive processes that have contributed to the developments in and interpretations of the conflict