title: Territorial and political development of independent Ukraine: Long-standing problems and new challenges
abstract: The concept of territorial and political development is exposed. The trends of the dynamics of regional differentiation of the electoral and political activity of citizens of Ukraine for the entire current period of its independence, main regional and political problems are identified. It is concluded that the at the first stage of territorial and political development (1991–2000 years), despite widespread Soviet identity and significant differentiation of mental and political moods, preconditio
journal: Visnyk of the Lviv University Series Geography