[Opinion] “Denies the Format of the Empire”: Political Analyst Gorbach on Putin's Hatred of Ukraine

He expressed his opinion in the project “The World and Us” with Yevgeny Magda. By the very fact of its existence, Ukraine destroys the picture of the world that Putin spreads, in which he himself lives and with which he holds control over a large part of northern Eurasia, over the Russian Federation and some other neighboring states. Therefore, Ukraine, by its very national identity, as a nation-state, denies the format of the empire, the format…