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Explores political, social, economic, and cultural conditions since independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; some focus on relations with Belarus and Russia; 8 articles. Contents: A matter of identity; Who is Ukraine?, by Vera Rich; Ukraine's ethnic kitchen, by Andrei Kurkov; The most dangerous place, by Olena Nikolayenko; Two worlds and Big Brother, by Mykola Riabchuk; Don't be afraid of the dark, by Andrei Kurkov; The story of Chernobyl; Voices of Chernobyl, by Natalie Nougayrède.

The construction of an imaginary borderland is key to smuggling along the South Africa/Zimbabwe border. Adapted from the source document.

This article examines transitional identities in pre-1945 Central European borderlands on both an individual & a collective level. These territories traditionally contained a zone of ethnic contact & passage. Numerous nerve lines linked different cultural groups, & ethnicity often became a matter of personal choice. The renewed strength of ethnicity & nationalism in Eastern Europe during the late twentieth century has rekindled interpretations that focus on the persistence & resiliency of these social sentiments. By drawing attention to malleability & fluidity, the examination of transitional populations balances this view. 6 Tables. [Copyright 2001 Sage Publications Ltd.]

This introduction of religiously based citizenship is a move away from the constitutional concept of citizenship introduced in India in the mid-twentieth century