title: The formation of independent Ukrainian state through cooperation and joint struggle of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples
abstract: The article explores the processes of formation of contemporary Ukrainian political nation, founded by both the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples. The unique nature of this process lies in the fact that the Crimean Tatars, who are ethnically Turkic, religiously Muslim, and are bearers of a different „cultural code” in contrast to Ukrainians, who are Slavs and predominantly Christians, have become subjects in the formation of the Ukrainian political nation. They both fight side by side for the 
journal: Wschodnioznawstwo