title: Voting Behavior in the Ukrainian Parliament: The Language Factor
abstract: Since the beginning of perestroika, Ukraine has been one of the most stable former Soviet republics in terms of minority relations. Its greatest challenge to date—the drive for secession by Crimea, Ukraine’s only province with a predominantly non-Ukrainian population—was temporarily staved off in mid-1992, at least for the short term, when Kiev granted Crimea a great deal of political, economic and linguistic autonomy. The elections to the unicameral Verkhovna Rada took place in March 1990, usin