title: Introduction
abstract: The events in Ukraine and Russia since November 2013, and the subsequent incorporation of Crimea into the Russian state in March 2014, with the support of some circles of inhabitants of the peninsula, demonstrate that the desire to belong to the Western part of the European continent is not necessarily always the case. In some instances, people do prefer to belong to the Eastern part of Europe. This development in Crimea was proof that the reason for the desire to be part of either Western or Ea
journal: University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark)