SOME REGIONAL ISSUES OF THE GEOPOLITICAL CHOICE OF UKRAINE

Abstract

Some historical aspects of the influence of landscape peculiarities of the Ukrainian ethnical territory boarders on shaping a geopolitical location of Ukraine are viewed. The mentality impact caused by the many-century distribution of Ukrainian lands between neighboring states are lined. It is stressed on the causes of separatism trends in some regions of Ukraine. Some negative outcome for Ukraine`s efforts to integrate in European continuum are foreseen as possible outcomes.