Economic Crisis in Ukraine in 1993-1994: Emergence of the Image of an Outcast
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series
The next event of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA Lecture Series will be the presentation entitled Economic Crisis in Ukraine in 1993-1994: the Emerging Image of an Outcast by Nataliya Ilchuk.
Economic Crisis in Ukraine in 1993-1994: Emergence of the Image of an Outcast
by Nataliya Ilchuk, PhD candidate at CY Cergy Paris University and ENSAPC
Taking as a focal point the economic crisis in Ukraine in 1993-1994, this presentation will demonstrate how one event interpreted through the lens of various journalists (Ukrainian, Russian, as well as that of international correspondents reporting from Kyiv and Moscow) led to establishing the country’s image as that of an outcast and consequently to Ukraine’s involuntarily exclusion from the European integration processes.
The reconstruction of the Ukrainian reality of the first years of Independence with the use of printed sources that were not available to most Ukrainians then (and remain largely ignored today), show how foreign policy was being shaped based on joggling with external aid and forcing massive migration of Ukrainian population abroad.
The announced attempts of politicians to find “one's own path of development” since 1991 in order to get out of Russia's zone of influence and at the same time the reluctance to follow the “Westernization” market reforms, will be a subject of analysis through a survey of publications in the press of that era.
The presentations will be held at 11 A.M. on Monday, December 9, 2024, in the Meeting Room of the Blinken OSA Archivum, and online.
The Zoom link of the meeting is: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94303532597?pwd=OXWJXczS4dy6CZ7pLvTQ7Ws4RQzymf.1
Meeting ID: 943 0353 2597
Passcode: 145372
