title: An Old Chronicle of Current Events
abstract: it was the first part of a bigger project. The second article, also published in Polis #2, 1996, analyzed the image of Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Russian press after the collapse of the USSR. I thought it would be useful to reread the article written more than a quarter of a century ago, because some of the issues addressed in them resonate with the current situation. In those distant days, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation financed the
journal: Russia in Global Affairs