GEOG 2600 Lecture 8: A New Russia
16 Sep 2016
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Powerpoint 1: ukraine: protests and revolts/war with russia. Potential ceasefire in syria is making russia focus on ukraine again. Continual back and forth fighting along disputed area of eastern. Ukraine. are fighting russians instead of russian/ukrainian rebels. Difference of language, nationality, beliefs in region of ukraine. Ukrainians in this region took opportunity to become more. Russia claims it is not sending troops into region, ukraine claims they. Western ukraine is very pro-eu, whereas eastern ukraine is pro- Poor gdp/capita in ukraine is another cause of unrest- tremendous independent and less reliant on russia after breakdown of soviet union- problem is that ukraine is not just settled by ukrainians, parts of it where. Russians are majority- such as region under conflict right now. Should ukraine join eu or create common state with russia and. Russia has been concerned about making sure these are controlled by them instead of ukraine. Decline in agricultural production (particularly wheat) has resulted in.
