Zakarpattia: A New Powder Keg in Ukraine?
Zakarpattia: A New Powder Keg in Ukraine?

Summary/Abstract: Some features of Ukraine’s southwestern Zakarpattia Oblast—geographical exclusivity, poor istorical links with Ukrainian statehood, independence of local politicians, and ethnic groups’ spirations for autonomy—could suggest similarities to Crimea. However, a key factor that rules out a epeat of the Crimean scenario is the limited influence of Russia in the oblast. It does not mean that he region is not exposed to any decentralization movements. It seems that now the biggest challenge o the central government in Kyiv regarding Zakarpattia are the ambitions of local elites who have oth ufficient financial independence and political tools in the form of non-regulated Hungarian and uthenian issues to take part, in the most pessimistic assumption, in the region’s destabilization.

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