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UMLAND, Andreas

Andreas Umland

DAAD Associate Professor of German and European Studies, Department of Political Science, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," Ukraine; Member, Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies ZIMOS, Bavaria.

 

Last Publications

May 1st celebrations in Kiev
10:31 10/04/2012

Prospects of the Russian language in Ukraine

Russian language is present in Ukraine in everyday life. Kiev remains a largely Russian-speaking city, and of course the south and east of Ukraine will probably remain Russian-speaking. But the Ukrainian language will become more and more relevant throughout the country, and eventually Ukraine will probably end up being a properly bilingual and partly trilingual country

For Fair Elections rally in Moscow
12:32 07/02/2012

How to make Russia democratic?

Russia’s democratic movement is not too small, but too multifarious. It has too many rather than too few parties, leaders and factions. Its activists are too proud, too full of themselves and too intellectual to unite with each other across the democratic spectrum for a real fight for political power.

Moscow rally protests election fraud
10:17 31/01/2012

Could Russia’s Ultranationalists Subvert Pro-Democracy Protests?

Putin is seen by some of the ultranationalists as such an inadequate part of the Russian national organism. He thus has to be replaced by a “healthy” and “worthy” representative of the Russian nation.

Protest rally on Revolution Square in Moscow
12:45 25/01/2012

The Sources and Risks of Russia’s White Revolution

Why Putin failed and the Russian democrats may too

Vladimir Putin holds meeting of Eurasian Economic Community's Interstate Council
15:37 07/12/2011

The stillborn project of a Eurasian Union: Why Post-Soviet integration has little prospects

At first glance, the idea of a re-integration of the post-Soviet republics may seem sensible. The economies, societies and populations of the successor republics of the USSR are linked to each other by a multitude of ties. On closer inspection, however, the creation of a new supranational formation spanning much of the territory of the former Tsarist and Soviet empires is hampered by structural and historical constraints.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky speaking at a pre-election conference of the party.
09:00 08/11/2011

Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the LDPR

For almost twenty years now, the LDPR has kept its status as the strongest ultra-nationalist party in Russia. It is thus well-positioned to garner support of nationalist voters. In spite of the many oddities and contradictions in the LDPR’s political history and public behavior, Zhirinovsky and Co. mayturn out to be among the winners of the next parliamentary elections.

Dmitry Medvedev meets with Viktor Yanukovych in Sochi
15:36 02/09/2011

Russia-Ukraine-EU triangle

Neither the European nor the Russian leaders, nor even the Ukrainian leadership, seem to be clear about the path Ukraine will take in its foreign relations in the near future. Moscow seems to be torn between its obvious aim of seducing Ukraine into a new special relationship – if not a new union – with Russia, on the one hand, and its short-term economic interests, on the other.

 
 
 


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