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Timothy Garton Ash - on Ukraine’s role in Europe | Thinking in Dark Times # 17

Explaining Ukraine

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Russia and the Orientalism of Ukraine

Ukraine in the past decades just broke this idea of clash of civilizations. Contrary to Ukraine Russia has a long history of conceptualizing its non-Europeanness. I don't think one can make the apodictic statement either that Russia is Europe or that Russia is not Europe because it is precisely an argument inside Russia as it is inside Turkey about to what extent it wants to orient itself towards Europe and actually we always still want to keep open channels of communications with Russians who have that orientation.

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