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Vladimir Putin has never understood why Ukrainians want to control their own destiny

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par Ostap Kushnir, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Portsmouth

Ten years ago, Ukraine looked to the democratic world like a faraway place. But this was just before Ukraine’s “Euromaidan” protests toppled the country’s pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych, paving the way for the election of a pro-western president, Petro Poroshenko.

As scholar of east European studies Peter Vermeersch has put it, whereas Ukraine was once seen as “the western edge of eastern Europe”, since Russia’s…

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