Alexander Motyl: Enthusiasm for separation and reform weakens in Ukraine
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko during the meeting of President Petro Poroshenko with Nova Krayina, association of experts on economic reforms, on July 9, 2014.
Three recent news items deserve our attention.
First the good news. According to the Russia-based Sociological Service of the Anti-Corruption Fund the vast majority of residents of Odessa and Kharkiv provinces support Ukrainian statehood and oppose Vladimir Putin’s New Russia (Novorossiya) project. A telephone survey of 1,000 people conducted on September 8th to 17th revealed the following attitudes:
