Toward the Idea of Polishness: Implications of 1918 for the Former Eastern Galicia, 1918–1939

Author(s): Jagoda Wierzejska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

The paper analyzes the Polish literary discourse on the former Habsburg province ofGalicia, developing after the restoration of Poland’s independence (1918) and the Polishvictory in the Polish-Ukrainian War of Eastern Galicia (1918–1919). Before WWI, especiallybefore the epoch of Galician autonomy (1867–1914), the prevailing discourse on the provincewas imbued by the idea of multi- and transnationalism grounded upon the Habsburg politicalculture. After the war, when Galicia became a part of the reborn Poland, the discoursepertaining to the region underwent a fundamental change. In the interwar Polish literature,the idea of multi- and transnational Galicia was a subject of specific transfers: sometimes ina continuative, usually, however, in a deconstructive version. Namely, it was disassembledand its components, referring to a revised political context, were ideologically used tostrengthen the representation of reality from the exclusive, Polish point of view. The paperfocuses on literary representations of the Polish-Ukrainian War of Eastern Galicia. It discussesthe stages of the aforementioned disassemblement, from the idea of Polish-Ruthenian“brotherhood” to the vision of Polish-Polish brotherhood, i.e. the homogenous Polishnation, from which the Others (Ukrainians, Jews and Austrians), depicted as enemies, wereexcluded with no exception. Such a vision prevailed in the Polish literature up until 1939;it has also had its continuations nowadays.

Сучасна українська соціолінгвістика: розвиток теорії і прикладні аспекти досліджень у працях представників Львівського соціолінгвістичного осередку

Author(s): Irena Mytnik,Mar’yana Roslyts’ka / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 8/2020

The article is devoted to some aspects of the analysis of the interaction of language and society in the modern paradigm. Its results relate to the formation of the content of such categories as “Ukrainian sociolinguistic tradition”, “periods of the development of knowledge about the social nature of language”, “sociological direction in Ukrainian linguistics”,“codification”, “codification on a folk basis”, “asymmetric communication situation”, “social- individual nature of family communication”, “social nature of a name”, “social functions of the Ukrainian language in the church”, “conversion to Orthodoxy of Greek Catholics”,“Ukrainization in the 20-30s of the twentieth century”. Researchers also analyze modern aspects of language-nation interaction, language-national security, the concept of “institutional language management”, “language discrimination”, “hate speech as a form of discursive discrimination”, “linguistic landscape”, informal names in the socio-group “ students”,communication in the socio-group “political elite”, etc. In general, the results obtained in the works of representatives of Lviv sociolinguistic circle contribute to the development of the terminological system and the categorical base of historical, theoretical, applied and cognitive sociolinguistics.

Давні імена в українських прізвищах

Author(s): Liubov Ostash / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 8/2020

In modern Ukrainian surnames one can find the diverse elements: Slavonic autochthonous names, Christian names, nicknames, etc. Ukrainian last names derived from the ancient Christian names are studied in the article. These names, getting into the Ukrainian language ground, underwent the phonetic transformation, the substantial quantity of folk variants were created from them. Currently the part of these proper names is out of the active use– functioning specifically as official variants of names, – however, they are preserved as folk variants of names, as well as modern Ukrainian surnames. The etymology of last names, deriving from the Christian names, is researched in the current article, names from which they were formed are defined, spreading of the names and the deriving surname forms from them is highlighted, and also the list of last names and geography of their usage is provided.

ГАСТРОНОМІЧНА КУЛЬТУРА УКРАЇНИ У ВІДДЗЕРКАЛЕННІ КУЛІНАРНИХ ЗБІРНИКІВ СЕРЕДИНИ XVIII – ПОЧАТКУ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ

Author(s): Olga Kazakevych / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2020

The paper aims to analyze hand-written and printed cookery books published in Ukraine from the mid18 to the early 20 centuries as a source for studying gastronomic traditions, methods of preparation and consumption of dishes, rations, festive and everyday food as well as interrelations of different European gastronomic practices. Research methods. The research is based on the cultural-historical approach. It involves the descriptive method for identifying peculiarities of each cookery book that is analyzed. Comparative method and content analyses were used to reveal both continuity of tradition and innovations in nutrition practices of the Ukraine’s population. Systematization method allowed to classify cookery editions according to some strict criteria. Scientific novelty. By analyzing the cookery books the author demonstrates the continuity of the Ukraine’s population nutrition practices. The paper reveals how different gastronomic cultures, religious beliefs, economy and medical science influenced on the cookery books’ content. Conclusions. It is stated that the mid-18 – early 20 centuries cookery books are reflecting the tendency of modernization and globalization of the nutrition practices. Cookery books influenced significantly shaping of the gastronomic practices of the Ukraine’s population. Among the various types of cookery editions there were guides and companions for young women that were not enough experienced in preparing food, examples of dinner menues, works on vegetarianism, childhood nutrition, healthy eating etc. Such books were based on the up-to-date achievements in the fields of physiology and dietology. By the end of the 19th century the quantity of cookbooks raised noticeably. One of the popular types of the cookbooks were editions aimed at young housewives. At the same time, a lot of cookbooks, especially those involving medical aspects of nutrition, were unable to pass through the censorship institutions in the Russian empire.

ВПЛИВ ТВОРЧОСТІ УКРАЇНCЬКОМОВНИХ ТА ІНШОМОВНИХ АВТОРІВ НА ПОЕТИКУ ВІРШОВАНИХ ТВОРІВ СИДОРА ВОРОБКЕВИЧА

Author(s): Tetyana Nykyforuk,Valeriyа Andriyets / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2019

The purpose of the study is to systematize scientific developments of scientists about the study of Vorobkevych’s poetic works in the aspect of their comparison with other Ukrainian (I. Kotlyarevsky, M. Shashkevych, M. Ustijanovych, Y. Golovatsky, P. Kulish, A. Metlynsky, O. Konysky) and foreign (T. Padura, Y.V. Goethe, G. Heine, V. Alexandri, M. Eminescu, I. Geliade-Redulescu, J. Vekerescu) poets and to add new observations, including quantitative (expressed by one component of poetics, several, many) and chronological (constant, occasional: at the beginning, in the middle, at the end of the creative path) hierarchy of influences. Methods of study: Comparative and comparative historical methods are used to reveal the influence of other Ukrainian (I. Kotlyarevsky, M. Shashkevych, M. Ustijanovych, Y. Golovatsky, P. Kulish, A. Metlynsky, O. Konysky) and foreign (T. Padura, Y.V. Goethe, G. Heine, V. Alexandri, M. Eminescu, I. GeliadeRedulescu, J. Vekerescu) poets on the poetics of Bukovynian writer. Biographical method makes it possible to find out the dependence of S. Vorobkevych’s views on poetics on the life basis. The hermeneutic method and the method of slow reading (the method of receptive poetics) were practiced, aimed to reveal S. Vorobkevych artistic means, interpret his works. The article is characterized by several aspects of novelty: for the first time in the Ukrainian literary studies a comprehensive study of the influence of poetics of other Ukrainian and foreign poets on the poetics of poetry of S. Vorobkevych’s works has been carried out in the aspect of themes, specifics in poetic language, covering vocabulary, tropics, syntaxes and generics. New observations on the proximity of the form works other Ukrainian and foreign poets and poems by S. Vorobkevych were added, completing the investigations of the predecessors. Conclusions. The study of S. Vorobkevych’s poetic works in the aspect of their comparison with other Ukrainian (I. Kotlyarevsky, M. Shashkevych, M. Ustijanovych, Y. Golovatsky, P. Kulish, A. Metlynsky, O. Konysky) and foreign (T. Padura, Y.V. Goethe, G. Heine, V. Alexandri, M. Eminescu, I. Geliade-Redulescu, J. Vekerescu) poets reveals that the influence of other Ukrainian and foreign poets was less evident, though different. In the context of such a study of S. Vorobkevych's work, the thesis of researchers of the poetry of Bukovynian artist (most notably by V. Lesin and O. Romanets) was confirmed that he was influenced by not one, but many poets at different stages of creativity.

УКРАЈИНИСТИКА и словенски свет: зборник научних радова: поводом 25 година украјинистике на Универзитету у Београду

Author(s): Lesya Steblina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 41/2020

Review of: Lesya Steblina - УКРАЈИНИСТИКА и словенски свет: зборник научних радова: поводом 25 година украјинистике на Универзитету у Београду [главни уредник Људмила Поповић]. Београд: Филолошки факултет, 2017. 470 С.

Теоретични предизвикателства при изследване на фентъзи литературата. Една среща в Украйна

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 01/2021

Topos of the Province in Ukrainian Literature: Post-Soviet Discourse

Author(s): Olena Romanenko / Language(s): English Issue: 105/2020

The article looks into Soviet and post-Soviet identity episodes in contemporary Ukrainian prose and offers models to interpret this phenomenon. In Ukrainian literature, this phenomenon is described in stories of characters returning to the places of their childhood and youth, that is, to the province. The province shows up as an important specific model with “Soviet leftover” vestiges that has proved to be extraordinarily stable and that Soviet everyday life has hardly changed. The authors of Ukrainian prose Serhiy Zhadan (novel “Voroshilovgrad”) and Artem Chech (novel “District D”) embody two models of analysis of the Soviet past. The first model suggests the regeneration of a simulacrum identity that does not maintain any links or connections with the family history. The second model mirrors the acceptance of the Soviet reality as the Other / Alien and the awareness of oneself as the Other. In both cases, the Soviet past is desacralized.

Що за фронтирною неозначеністю? Yaroslav Polishchuk, Frontyrna identychnist: Odesa XX stilittia, Dukh i Litera, Kyiv 2019, 208 s.

Author(s): Tetiana Meizerska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 7/2020

The author of the review analyses the book of professor Yaroslav Polishchuk Boundary Identity. Odessa of the XX Century. This geopoetical study opens before its reader the whole world of the history and art of the city which played an important role on the cultural map of Ukraine. Speaking about the identity of Odessa and its inhabitants nowadays, we have to say that there are a lot of representations of it. The struggle between the images of the imperiled province and the contemporary Ukrainian port center influences the cultural identification of the city. The review reveals all the ways in which the researcher tries to represent the original image of this metropolis in artistic works and visions.

Чари і пекло Мароко. Українсько-мароканський діалог поколінь у польській рецепції

Author(s): Walentyna Sobol / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 6/2019

The author of the article, Walentyna Sobol, analyzes documentary and literary books from Morocco and two émigré writers about Morocco. These are “Spells of Morocco” – the Ukrainian forgotten author Sofia Jabłońska (1907–1971) and “Moon in Tears” – contemporary writer Morocco Ouard Saillo, born in Morocco in 1974. Ouardy Saillo’s book, decorated with photos of the Saillo family, was written in German. For the first time is published in Polish translated by Barbara Otwinowska (published in 2005 in Warsaw). In 2018, in Kiev were published 107 photographs of Sofia Jabłońska from her times of work and travel around the world, including Morocco. The goal of the article is to reveal the phenomenon of persistence and bravery of both writers, different, but sometimes very similar intertextuality . The narrative of the documents is examined using a methodological approach, especially in terms of: “intertextuality is a study of the memory of literature” (Tadeusz Sławek). Using modern research in anthropology, including the lexicon of the culture of memory “Modi memorandi”, the author of the article investigates the phenomenon of intertextuality in the narratives of Jabłońska and Saillo. This comparative study of the autobiographical works of Ukrainian and Moroccan writers in Poland not only reveals the conclusions, but also opens wide research perspectives.

СПІВПРАЦЯ АРСЕНА РІЧИНСЬКОГО З ЧАСОПИСАМИ СХІДНОЇ ГАЛИЧИНИ (1928 ‒ 1933 рр.)

Author(s): Olena Kravchuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2020

Aim of investigation. The features of A. Richinskyi's cooperation with the journals of Eastern Galicia (1928–1933) are studied and analyzed. The research methodology. Used general scientific (analysis, synthesis, systematization, generalization), special historical (synchronous, comparative historical) methods. Scientific novelty. The article submitted for publication is the first scientific study, in which the collaboration of A. Richinskyi with the journals of Eastern Galicia during the appointed time was studied in a holistic, systematic and complex way. Conclusions. It is proved that A. Richinskyi, a well-known socio-political, cultural and educational, church figure, doctor, composer, ethnographer of the first half of the twentieth century. collaborated with the magazines of Eastern Galicia, the motivating factor was the difficult situation in which the Ukrainians of Western Volyn` found themselves in interwar Poland, which limited the Ukrainian-language publishing activity. It is noted that A. Richinskyi, being a conscientious Ukrainian patriot, tried, through cooperation with magazines of Eastern Galicia, to reveal certain pressing problems, to expand the worldview of Ukrainians, publishing his works in a number of popular and well-known magazines. The important role of A. Richinskyiin the popularization of the Ukrainian printed word, is noted, which influenced the formation of the national consciousness of Ukrainians in both Western Volyn and Eastern Galicia. The role and place of A. Richinskyiin the popularization of Ukrainian-language printed materials, his influence on the originality and preservation of self-identity of Ukrainians in the conditions of interwar Poland are assessed.

КРЕАТИВНІСТЬ БУКОВИНСЬКИХ НАРОДНИХ МОЛИТОВ

Author(s): Natalia Rusnak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2020

Prayer is a multifaceted phenomenon of the humanitarian paradigm of thinking: prayer is a genre of fiction, a fideistic text, a genre of confessional communication, a folklore text. The relevance of the article is conditioned by the need of studying of the folklore texts of Bukovinian dialects. The purpose of the article is to analyze the folk apocryphal Bukovinian prayers, known in many variants, which are folklore texts. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are used, as well as linguistic – method of linguistic observation, descriptive, comparative and historical methods. Conclusions. In Bukovina apocryphal prayers about the suffering of Jesus are well-known. They belong to the motivational prayers, prayers-calls, which don’t contain an appeal to higher power, but on the contrary, God’s appeal to people, which corresponds to the scheme якщо…, то. In folk tradition the prayer is called очінаші, молитви and usually functioning as a plural noun. The motif of continuity of prayer, which is characterized by a stylistic figure of anadiplosis, is realized in prayers. The naive picture of the world of dialect carrier interprets biblical information. Prayers are as close as possible to the realities of the Bukovina region, as a result of which in folklore texts there are tokens that denote the landscape, the life of the bearers of Bukovinian dialects, for example, tokens which denote kinship. Folk consciousness on the basis of folk etymology creates a kind of linguistic pattern of poetic lines. The textual reception of prayers is a dialogue between the Mother of God and Jesus Crist. Phonetic, lexical, morphological features of dialects are reproduced in prayers.

ПАРАДИГМАТИЧНО-СИНТАГМАТИЧНІ ВІДНОШЕННЯ У ЛЕКСИКО-СЕМАНТИЧНІЙ ГРУПІ ДІЄСЛІВ РУХУ ОСОБИ (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ ПОВІСТІ О. КОБИЛЯНСЬКОЇ “ЗЕМЛЯ”).

Author(s): Yulia Rusnak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2020

The purpose of the article is to analyze the paradigmatic-syntagmatic relations in the lexical-semantic group of movement verbs performed by a person on the material of Olga Kobylyanska’s story “The Earth”. The relevance of the article is determined by the need of further in-depth study of Olga Kobylyanskaya idiostyle in order to form a cognitive-pragmatic conception of the writer's artistic discourse. The novelty of scientific reseach is conditioned by the fact that the paradigmatic-syntagmatic relations of movement verbs in the Olga Kobylyanska's language have not yet been the subject of analysis. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are used, as well as linguistic – descriptive, structural methods and method of component analysis. Conclusions. Verbs of movement performed by a person are represented by two groups: verbs of directed and undirected movement. Verbs of directed movement are represented by the verbs from the point of destination and the verbs to the point of destination. The tokens that are the coordinates of the movement from the point of destination are nouns used in Genitive case with prepositions з, від, із. The syntagmatic connection of movement verbs from the point of destination with the nouns is formed by verb-noun phrases based on the conjugation. The range of verbs that denote movement to the point of destination is much wider. Among them there are formations with the prefix ви-, при-, до-(ді-), під- по-. The most commonly used verbs are іти-прийти, ходити-приходити, прямувати, приступати. They have a diverse range of compatibility. Undirected movement of a person in the language of O. Kobylyanska’s story “ The Earth” denotes a wide range of verbs, among them there are a lot of prefix formations. Undirected movement is reproduced first of all by the verbs іти, ходити.

ДІАЛЕКТНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЩОДЕННИКА-ХРОНІКИ “ВІЙНА” І. БАЖАНСЬКОГО

Author(s): Antoniy Moysey,Yulia Rusnak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2021

The article examines the linguistic features of the diary-chronicle “War” by I. Bazhansky, in particular the dialect vocabulary. The language of I. Bazhansky's works is valuable because it allows to draw conclusions about the peculiarities of the Ukrainian language of the early ХХ century on the territory of Bukovina. The relevance of the research is determined by the need of studing of dialectical features of the diary-chronicle“War” by Bukovinian teacher and writer Ivan Bazhanskyi. Exploring the linguistic features of the diarychronicle requires a comprehensive analysis to make an effective communicative influence on the reader. The aim of scientific work is to analyze phonetic, lexical, word-forming, morphological and syntactic dialectisms in the Ivan Bazhanskyi diary-chronicle “War”. The novelty of research is conditioned by the fact that in the Ukrainian linguistics dialectal phenomena of the Ivan Bazhanskyi diary-chronicle "War" has been explored for the first time. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of induction and deduction are used, as well as linguistic – descriptive and structural methods. Conclusions. Phonetic and morphological dialectisms recorded in this literary text reflect the basic phonetic and grammatical patterns of Bukovinian dialects. Word-forming dialectisms in modern Bukovinian dialects are obsolete. Among the lexical dialectisms we distinguish the actual lexical and semantic dialectisms. Lexical dialectisms of the diarychronicle “War” by I. Bazhansky are classified by lexical-thematic groups: LTG of military affairs, LTG of economic sphere of use, abstract names, nominations of a person, names of clothes, nominations of people, etc. Each group includes specific Ukrainian words and borrowed names.

ЛІТЕРАТУРОЗНАВЧА РЕЦЕПЦІЯ ПОЕТИКИ ВІРШОВАНИХ ТВОРІВ СИДОРА ВОРОБКЕВИЧА У ЛІТЕРАТУРНО-КРИТИЧНИХ ПРАЦЯХ О. МАКОВЕЯ

Author(s): Tetyana Nykyforuk,Valeriyа Andriyets / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2021

This study is aimed to consider and systematize the literary and critical works of O. Makovei, to analyze the scientist’s thoughts about the poetics of S. Vorobkevych’s poetic works in terms of generics, metalogy, poetic syntax, phonics, versification, to outline the significance, value and objectivity of O. Makovei’s research. Research methods: analysis, synthesis, comparative and historical, comparative, descriptive, method of receptive poetics, biographical. Scientific novelty of the research. For the first time in Ukrainian literary criticism, the poetics of S. Vorobkevych's poetic works was studied through the prism of O. Makovei's vision; materials are analyzed in terms of generics, metalogy, poetic syntax, phonics, versification. Summary. Literary critic O. Makovei largely contributed to the study of the life and career of S. Vorobkevych primarily as a compiler of a three-volume edition of works by S. Vorobkevych. Studies related to the biography of the Bukovynian artist are also very interesting. Considerations about the periodization of S. Vorobkevych's poetic work are correct. O. Makovei is the author of the foreword “General Notes on the Poetry of Izydor Vorobkevych”. The researcher made a review in the newspaper “Bukovyna” about the published Vorobkevych collection “Over the Prut”. The review identifies three main theses related to the topic of this study: 1) while analyzing the poem of the author of the collection “Over Prut”, it is necessary to take into account the unity of verbal and musical rhythms; 2) most of the poems in the collection are written “in the style of folk songs”; 3) in the poems of S. Vorobkevych the influence of T. Shevchenko and P. Kulish is noticeable. The main provisions and conclusions of O. Makovei express the idea of the peculiarities of the poetics of the poetic works of S. Vorobkevych and might be a good basis for further research in this perspective.

Ways of Othering: Literary Image of Russians in Habsburg Lviv

Author(s): Katarzyna Kotyńska / Language(s): English Issue: 53/2021

The popular image of multicultural Lviv/Lwów in general, and under Habsburg rule in particular, usually excludes Russians from the group of genuine city dwellers. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the few portrayals of Russians in literary texts relating to the period of WWI. I compare Polish strategies of othering Russians as barbarians and an insidious element, prevalent in the literature for young readers of the 1920s, with the tendency of some Ukrainian authors to create a more nuanced image in the mass literature of the 2010s. The analysis of ways of othering Russians in the two identified groups of literary texts considers the geopolitical and national identity issues underpinning these trends.

Функционально-семантическая значимость молчания в волшебной сказке

Author(s): Iwona Rzepnikowska / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2022

This article focuses on the silence of a fairy tale hero, i. e. a deliberate withholding from speaking that is a metonymic manifestation of a symbolic death. The aim of the study was to determine the meanings of silence that are representative of this type of narration and to indicate their probable mythical and ritual connotations. Research materials included mainly Polish and Eastern Slavic tales of a sister whose silence constitutes a precondition for bringing her brothers, previously turned into birds, back into human form. The analysis showed the use of a semantic component essential to silence required to keep a secret and impossibility of revealing the truth. If a spell can be a result of a parental curse, then suspending communication becomes a form of maintaining bonds with the brothers killed by words. It can also be interpreted as a reflection of the speech behaviour of the parents, who violate the basic folk ethics of the word. The analysed narratives preserved the magical functions of silence as the assurance of the effectiveness of objects made in complete silence (in the given example — shirts made for the spellbound brothers). Nevertheless, in other variants of plot type 451, the silence of the heroine is the most significant precondition for her own existential transformation, with numerous narratives describing the multi-stage nature of the rite of passage (a marriageable girl → a married woman → a newly delivered mother → a mother). In this indirect way the fairy tale reveals the limits of female communicative behaviour in folk culture. In order to present the essence of the liminality of the given story’s heroine, the “stasis” category was used, which helped to correlate her (and any other fairy tale protagonist) basic existential experience with a temporal dimension of human existence construed as regular consecutive time passages and pauses, moments of inactivity (stasis).

Strategii narative în proza lui Iren Rozdobuzko

Author(s): Maria Hoșciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Украинская проза конца ХХ-го – начала ХХI-го века является частью очень разнообразной картины с точки зрения стилистических тенденций, развития худежественных систем, которые сформировались как в постмодернизме, так и отднльно от этого течения. Художественная проза современной украинской писательницы Ирен Роздобудько представляется как плод «новой волны», которое независимо идеологически и отличается творческой свободой автора. Целью нашей статьи является определение повествовательных стратегий автора, которые являються его ключом к успеху, при помощи понятия доступности.

Imaginea Occidentului în proza ucraineană postmodernistă

Author(s): Aliona Bivolaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Наше исследование направлено на изучение образа Европы в украинской современной литературе, на презентацию отношений между Украиной и Западом, а также определение образа Другого в культурном и литературном плане. Особое внимание уделяется проблемам изучения межкультурного взаимодействия, а также этнической и национальной идентичности.

Relația dintre Rusia și Ucraina în teren și în romanele lui Andrei Kurkov

Author(s): Ancuța-Iulia Hurjui / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2015

The present paper was meant to talk about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine seen from two different dimensions, one regarding the conflict in itself, on the battle field, and the other one regarding the vision about the conflict in Andrey Kurkov’s novel The president’s last love. Regarding the conflict in itself, we have to say that we cannot point exactly the moment when it started. We can compare the conflict with a smouldering fire that started burn properly at the end of 2013, when Viktor Yanukovych stopped the negotiations with the European Union regarding a commercial and political agreement. I concentrated my work on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on the battle field. I have chosen to talk about the new type of war between the two countries, the hybrid war, based, mainly, on disinformation. I also talked about Novorossiya, the territory formed by the self-proclaimed republics, Donetsk and Luhansk, confederation led by pro-Russian separatists. Another subject that I pointed in the first chapter of my paper work is the aviatic incident that took place on the 17th of July 2014, when an airplane of Malaysian Airlines was shot down by pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine. This incident generated a political conflict worldwide, because everybody put the blame on Russia, saying that Ukraine never had that type of weapons. I’ve focused my research on the way that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is presented in the novel President’s last love. I’ve found it interesting the fact that Kurkov describes in a novel published on 2004 about things that will happen a few years later and he is very precise on his description. To be more precise, he is talking about Putin’s come back on the president’s chair that took place in 2012. He is also talking about poisoning of the Ukraine’s president, Sergey Pavlovich Bunin, fact that also happened in Ukraine after a while, with Yushchenko. The book is like a mosaic where from you can get to know things about the life in the soviet period and what happened after dissolution of the Soviet Union. In conclusion, my paper work is based on a research regarding many dimensions of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and presents the conflict in a detailed way, on the battle field, but also on another world, the one of the literature.