title: Between the Soviet legacy and opportunism: minority policy in Ukraine
abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to assess the nature of the post-communist 
  minority rights regime in Ukraine and to investigate the reasons for it having 
  assumed its current form. I accomplish this task by outlining the rather confused 
  state of affairs that exists in terms of legislative output and locate the causes of 
  this situation within the context of rent-seeking political elites who refuse to
  acknowledge the needs of wider (civil) society and who in post-communist 
  Ukraine exhibit many 