Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin has been waging an “Information War” on Ukraine.  Putin’s main goal was to win over Ukranians who were largely split between what the article calls “Soviet nastalgia” and Ukranian nationalism.  These attempts have largely backfired on Putin with most Ukranian citizens finding a new sense of nationalism and doing away with there once profound ties to Russia.  Main human rights and humanitarian groups have urged Putin to stop his “information war” while he continues to spend money pro-russian propoganda.  I found that this article related to what we have been learning in class as far as Ukraine and Russia’s once close ties as displayed by the pro-russian propaganda we looked at earlier in the semester.  However, I believe that this new found sense of Ukranian nationalism is good for Ukraine because it is helping Ukranian citizens to find their own identity.

http://uatoday.tv/politics/putin-acknowledges-russia-ukraine-divide-as-patriotic-ukrainians-unite-in-opposition-to-kremlin-lea-374015.html