VSt is from kyiv, where he stayed to help his compatriots, that the philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko, editor-in-chief of the English-language media Ukraine World, expresses himself in French, he who wrote his doctoral thesis at the School advanced studies in the social sciences. In particular, he evokes the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples in their relationship to politics and national identity, the crux of the problem in his eyes. For some, in Russia, the only distinction lies in Western, Polish and Habsburg contributions, which must be eradicated for the sake of Russian identity. For Yermolenko, as for many Ukrainians, his nation was, on the contrary, built on these differences more than on language or ethnicity. The intellectual does not mince his words: he estimates the K…
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