If anything, differences in political culture and history define Ukrainian-Russian conflict to the greater extent than language, nationalism or economics. Give

If anything, differences in political culture and history define Ukrainian-Russian conflict to the greater extent than language, nationalism or economics. Given the last 30 years, the trend is going in opposite directions — where Russia reverts to their authoritarian baseline, Ukraine actually devolves central authority and especially presidential powers. Ukrainian constitution of 1996 literally has a transition plan to disperse the power of central executive authority into several distinct bodies. Both trends are backed by centuries of history. To put that in a perspective: Ukraine had more democratic transitions of power in the last 10 years than Russian had in the last 300.