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Originally Posted by Damien
This is still about the people wanting to join EU and the Government wanting to keep a close alliance with Russia isn't it? Do we know how the population divides? Is it mostly pro-EU or is there a good body of public support to remain good relations and close ties with Russia?
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While Ukranian ethnicity is a complex subject at a granular level bearing in mind the fact that those lands have been some of the most contested on the globe over the past 1500 years or so, the key divide in this day and age is that between native Ukrainian speakers and ethnic Russians (mainly around the Eastern and South Eastern borderlands).
There's a reasonably well balanced article
here which puts the current situation into perspective somewhat while putting some numbers into the frame. The highlights being that 41 percent of those polled prefer a trade agreement with the EU versus 38 percent aligning with the Russian customs union. Presumably the remaining 21 percent were too drunk to care.