`Questions of the past are heavily instrumentalized`
(WorldNews Switzerland)

22 March 2017 `Questions of the past are heavily instrumentalized` Georgiy Kasianov, currently researching at the University of Basel, is one of the leading Ukrainian historians. In the interview, he talks about the instrumentalization of history in conflicts - and what historians can do about it. Georgiy Kasianov, your research focuses on the political use and misuse of history. What role does history play in the conflict in the Ukraine today? I would not say that it is an exclusively Ukrainian feature to produce more history than it can consume (to recall a famous Churchill`s phrase about Balkans); it`s a general trend we`ve see in Europe for the last several decades. However, in Ukraine...