title: La questione ucraina come Kulturkampf
abstract: The speech made by Putin on March 18 2014 to accommodate triumphantly the results&#13;\nof the referendum for self-determination of the Crimea on March 16 is another variant of&#13;\nthe Kulturkampf between Russia and Ukraine which was opened in the Twenties of the&#13;\nNineteenth century. The legacy of the czarist empire and the Soviet Union is a crucial&#13;\nfactor for understanding both the Ukrainian question, and the question of geopolitical&#13;\nposition of the post-Soviet space. Russia 
journal: HISTORIA MAGISTRA