title: Ukrainian language and national identity in Ukraine: humanitarian expertise
abstract: Ukraine is often regarded as a post-Soviet country with internal political and social disunity, a lack of common consent among various groups of society concerning Ukraine's political orientation, historical events, personalities, use of language, and national identity. Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, these problems were used to demonstrate the existence of two conflicting identities -Ukrainian-speaking and Russianspeaking -split mainly based on language arguments (Riabchuk, 2003) 1 , affe