Russia and Ukraine: Contested Narratives

Timecodes below Russian and Ukrainian societies are deeply polarized on several problematic narratives which present different views on the events in their shared history. Among such narratives are the Great Famine of 1932-33; dissolution of the Soviet Union and Ukraine acquiring independence in 1991; NATO and EU’s enlargement; the Euromaidan of 2013/14 and the subsequent conflicts in Crimea and Donbas. Contrasting perceptions of these events of past and present were brought into focus by the German-Russi