title: Ukraine: between Europe and Eurasia
abstract: Countries are like people: they exist in time and space. Napoleon once said
  that ‘Geography is destiny’, and it is true with regard to Ukraine, whose
  destiny is inﬂuenced by both politics and geography. Its historical fate was to
  be established and develop between Russia and Europe. Like a planet that has
  veered oﬀ its course, Ukraine is stuck in the gravitational zone of two large
  geopolitical stars. One of them, Russia, has strong historical and cultural ties
  to Ukraine, and can be described a