ABSTRACT
The chapter claims that, while clearly being diverse, Ukraine is not deeply divided between East and West. Our study of the theoretical approaches and empirical evidence demonstrates that ethnicity, language, and political orientations correlate but do not necessarily match and reinforce each other. We find that Ukraine’s regionalised structure of ethnic and linguistic cleavages did not change much until Euromaidan and the outbreak of Russian aggression. However, since then, the use of Ukrainian language has increased across all regions of the country. Moreover, the number of those who identify themselves with Ukraine rather than with the locality or region they live has also increased.
