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National Identities and Virtual Foreign Policies among the Eastern Slavs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Taras Kuzio
Taras Kuzio*
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The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. t.kuzio@utoronto.ca
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The three eastern Slavic states—Russia, Ukraine and Belarus—have virtual foreign policies towards each other that are a product of weakly defined national identities inherited from the former USSR. In addition, this virtuality has been compounded by the presence of centrist, former high-ranking nomenklatura elites who have led all three countries at different times since 1992. Former “sovereign communist” centrist oligarchs are ideologically amorphous, in both the domestic and foreign policy arenas.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 431 - 452
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Copyright © 2003 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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