🧵 Here you will find Maps 🗺️ to understand the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, I hope.
1. Languages spoken at Home
2. Ethnolinguistic Map
3. Map of Dialects
4. Percentage of People stating that Russian is their Mother Tongue (2001)
5. Support for Russian as an official state language
6. Proportion of users, who stated their mother tongue as Russian (blue) or as Ukrainian (red) in the social media network @vkontakte
7. Religious Divisions
8. Voting Map in 1994
Kuchma vs Kravchuk
9. 2004 Elections (First Round)
10. 2004 Elections (Second Round)
Yanukovych vs Yuschenko
11. 2004 Elections (Third Round)
12. 2006 Elections (Party of The Regions)
13. Parliamentary Elections of 2007
14. First round of Presidential elections of 2010
Legend
Blue/ Dark blue – Yanukovich
Red: Timoshenko
15. 2014 Elections - Turnout
34.76% refused to vote
16. Attitudes to United States Role in Crisis
17. Attitudes towards joining the EU
18. Summary So Far - A Divided Nation
Politically, Ethno-Linguistically,Socially
Conflict Becomes Inevitable
Ask Northern Ireland
19. Why the Division?
Eastern and Southern Ukraine (Light Green in Map) were former constituent parts of Russia that were added to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by Soviet Communist Party leaders when Ukraine and Russia were two parts of the same country.
23. Since the disputed Crimean referendum, the Maidan Uprising in 2013 & the 2014 elections, US, CIA, UK and NATO decided to support Ukraine with military training & weapons, as discussed in another thread:
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Clip 👇
2. The Making of the Documentary (20 minutes)
"Unfolding like true crime, this detective story takes us deep into clashing conspiracy theories & partisanship while exposing the dangers posed by experiments regularly taking place in the world’s biolabs"
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