The Crisis of Ukrainian Statehood: Political, Legal, Axiological and Geoeconomic Aspects.

The article focuses on the complex political, legal, socioculturel and geopolitical problems generated by the current political crisis in Ukraine. The authors analyze its historical and sociopolitical preconditions as well as its global context. This crisis sheds light on prospects for geopolitical and geoeconomic reconfiguration of the post-Soviet space. The focus is on problems of the Ukrainian state's national consolidation, dysfunctions of the democratic process in Ukraine, efficiency of Ukraine's democratic political institutions, and transformations in the constitutional and legal system and the political regime. The authors analyze in political terms the risks of the failure and possible disintegration of Ukrainian statehood, prospects for re-establishing the state as a crisis management option, postrevolutionary destructive practices, and the growing role of informal institutions in Ukrainian politics. They also consider the growing and qualitatively aggravating rifts in Ukrainian society, which are largely the consequence of the nation building policy conducted within the ethnonational model and based on the mobilization resources of xenophobia. A comparative analysis of the Ukrainian and Russian post-Soviet political systems' transformations is presented. The authors also look at alternatives to the interaction between the oligarchy, the bureaucracy and political personalism in these countries. As a result of this interaction, we have two different consolidation prospects of their political systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]