Ukraine: a fundamentally Divided Nation
Ukraine is fundamentally a divided nation; historically it had absorbed numerous territories from neighbouring countries: Poland, Romania, Hungary and even from Russia. Any permanent solution to the current conflicts would be an extremely difficult task, if it could be remotely possible.
CNN, a Divided Ukraine • Mar 3, 2014
Ukraine is beset by political turmoil the likes of which it hasn’t seen in almost a decade. What started as protests over the handling of a trade pact with the European Union escalated to the ousting of the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
The language
A new government has been installed in Kiev, the capital. Ukraine, the biggest frontier nation separating Russia and the European Union, is sometimes considered a pawn between Russia and the West. The maps show a couple of ways in which Ukraine is divided.
Ukrainian is the official language, spoken by 70% of the country’s population. Russian is also spoken widely and is the mother tongue of many Ukrainians, especially in the east and in the southern region of Crimea, where ethnic Russians are in the majority.
Violent protests broke out in the Crimean capital of Simferopol on February 27, against the new order set in motion a week earlier amid mass demonstrations in the country capital of Kiev. Crimea is a bastion of support for ousted President Yanukovych and is also home to Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet, based at Sevastopol.
55-60% of the population in Eastern Ukraine is ethnic Ukrainian, but ethnic Russians make up a plurality in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
This is a lingustic map and obviously most Ukrainians in the eastern portion use Russian. But they still put their native tongue so this qualifys a lot as more of an ethnicity map.
Joel
A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob 