The basics of ukrainian geophilisophy. At the turn of two cultures

Abstract

To understand the true causes of the events that have been occurring in Ukraine throughout its history. Firstly, it is necessary to understand the peculiarities of geophilosophy in the regions. The author offered the main characteristics of geophilosophy in the regions, which form the Ukrainian mentality for centuries. Geographically modern Ukraine is located at the crossroads of two powerful cultures in the Eurasian continent: Asian and European. The author has used the dialectical, system-structural, structural-functional research methods as well as the methods of comparison, analysis and synthesis. The author’s main contribution in the study of this actual complex topic is another attempt of the objective research of the historical and cultural connections between Moscow and Kyiv, the Russians and the Ukrainians. The novelty of the study is to show Ukraine and the Ukrainians inside the country, with all their contradictions and the attempts establishing their own cultural markers of identity.