Maidan

indeed, nations unite not over resources but values. certain linguistic similarities that's all there is to it. the differences in culture, religion, history and political orientation are far bigger. in the 21st century the slavic peoples remain as diverse in fact as they always were, and there is nothing wrong with it.

and it's tru that that's russia primarily who consistently tried to bring the slavic nations together in various combinations (the final most modest one being the projected union of russia ukraine and belarus). the pro-russian trend was initially a possitive thing perhaps - depending of course on how you look at it (not from the turkish perspective of course). it helped the bulgarians and serbs to become independent nations. that historic pro-russian orientation is still reflected in the colors of several slavic flags. but now while russia is so clearly moving back to authoritarian if not totalitarian model it would be appalling to suggest such a thing to a newly independent democracy - such as ukraine