Lesia Ukrainka: Ukrainian National Identity Against the "Russian Ukrainians" Dichotomy

Development of Wds Russian-ukrainian Segment

Establishment of the Russian-Ukrainian WDS Segment, its state of the art, main priorities and research activities are described. One of the high priority tasks for Segment members is development of common information space – transition from Legacy Systems and individual Services to a common globally interoperable distributed data system that incorporates emerging technologies and new scientific...

Making Sense of World War II: How Russian and Ukrainian Textbooks Foster National Identities

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the memory of World War II has been used in state-led nation-building processes of post-Soviet countries to foster a sense of national belonging. This paper provides an insight into the offi cial discourse of World War II in Russia and Ukraine by concentrating on a comparative analysis of World War II representations in Russian and Ukrainian school histor...

Russian stock market in the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between returns in the Russian stock market and global equity markets in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis. We apply dynamic the Russian and global equity returns after the crisis outbreak. The Russian stock market clearly decoupled from both de veloped and emerging markets, as shown by a 30–50% decline in returns correlation. In view of dram...

"Russian nervousness": neurasthenia and national identity in nineteenth-century Russia.

"Nothing dies so hard as a word", wrote Harry Quilter in 1892, "-particularly a word nobody understands."' At the end of the nineteenth century, one such word-first uttered in America, but soon reverberating across the Western world-was "neurasthenia". Popularized by the American neurologist George M Beard, this vaguely defined nervous disorder seemed to crop up everywhere, from medical journal...

History and National Identity Construction: The Great Famine in Irish and Ukrainian History Textbooks