EurActiv: Portrait of the Ukrainian
"We don't know the society in which we live in. This proves to be wholly true in the case of Ukraine as well. Its citizens, who have been searching for their path for already some 20 years, do not completely realise that frequently they are the main obstacle on their way to changes. What exactly are the characteristics of today's Ukrainians? Social fatalism became the world outlook on grounds of survival. And as a result, there developed ultrahigh adaptive skills. The majority of Ukrainians have a high level of communicativeness which results from the need to negotiate with different powers which have controlled Ukraine in different historical periods.
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