Open AccessPRO-WESTERN POLICY OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY AS THREAT FOR POSSIBLE RUSSIAN CONCEPT OF UKRAINE FEDERALIZATION
Author(s) -
Olga Jastrzębska
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ante portas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2353-6306
DOI - 10.33674/20198
Subject(s) - ukrainian , presidency , political science , state (computer science) , politics , foreign policy , context (archaeology) , political economy , public administration , law , sociology , geography , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
The election of a new president of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, was for many analysts and ordinary citizens of Ukraine a big astonishment. The new head of the state is a complete debutant on Ukraine's political scene and will be having to make many decisions, related to the shape of foreign policy, especially in determining the vectors of its development. President, often emphasizing the will of further integration with European and Atlantic structures must reckon with Russia's interferences in any attempts which can bring Ukraine closer to the Western structures. Ukraine's federalization concept can be considered as one of such undertakings. Treated by Russian politics as a remedy for political and national cleavages, is received by Ukrainian politicians as a first step to destroy the state unity. This concept also has been negatively received by president Zelensky. His resolute answer for federalization proposal is associated with many questions: is his openly pro-Western foreign policy a serious threat for Russia's vision of Ukraine as a federal state? Despite Zelensky’s objection will he agree to be a partial federalization due to the ongoing conflict in the Eastern part of Ukraine? And how this concept can influence the frames of his presidency in the context of planned rapprochement with the West?