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Relations between Ukraine and the European Union, under the European Neighbourhood Policy and the newly launched Eastern Partnership Initiative, have undergone considerable progress in the development of multi-faceted forms of co-operation between the two sides. These include a gradual reorientation of the Ukrainian population westwards, and their incremental appreciation of European values, including those of democracy, freedoms and human rights. The 2010 presidential election serves as a testimony to Ukraine's growing commitment to European standards. On the negative side, however, a lack of balance between EU and Ukrainian interests can still be observed, as can a certain short-sightedness on the part of Brussels officials in treating Ukraine mainly as a cordon sanitaire between Europe and the post-Soviet territories. There is also a growing lack of motivation within the Ukrainian political elite to implement practical reforms, and this suggests limited partnership and transparency in Ukraine's relationship with the EU. Adapted from the source document.

The author examines the regional factor's influence on integrative and activating functions of political culture of the population of Ukraine. As a factor of influence on the above-mentioned functions, the region is treated as a territorial organization of socio-political and socio-cultural aspects of a community's activity. The congruence of common socio-cultural values, as well as the level of political solidarity is researched on the basis of historical identity, spatial-territorial self-identification, a desirable line of the regional development related to the opposition "nationally integrated — regionally autonomous", as well as the degree of authoritarianism in a territorial community. Empirical data allow concluding about political culture of all regions of Ukraine that can be defined as tending to the integrative-passive type with slight differences.