Regional Political Divisions in Ukraine Since Euromaidan
摘要
This chapter analyzes support for pro-Western/pro-nationalist and pro-Russian/pro-communist political parties and presidential candidates and attitudes towards separatism and foreign policy orientations in regions of Ukraine before and after Euromaidan in different national elections and surveys. It examines the results of the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections and the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections. The chapter uses KMIS, Razumkov Center, and other major representative surveys and public opinion polls to analyze changes in regional preferences for joining the European Union, NATO, the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, and a union with Russia. It also uses a survey, which was commissioned by the author and conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in Spring 2014, to determine regional differences in support for separatism in Ukraine.