INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, MULTICULTURALISM AND INTEGRATION, pages: 153 - 163, 2019

The Challenge of Interethnic Coexisting in Europe at the Beginning of the XXI Century: the Political Dimension

Rezumat: This article is dedicated to the problems of interethnic coexistance in contemporary European space. The author makes an attempt to analyze the scientific approaches to the defining the essence of the term „identity”, „national identity”, analyze the main perculiarities of social-political develoment of Ukraine in 2013-2014, Scottish and Catalan referendums and their influence on European stability. The special attention is payed to the Russian influence on political development of Ukraine; Russia‟s interference into domestic affairs of the EU member states.