About the book: 2015 / The state is complicated. Being called and being a state are not the same thing. And if it is to be a state, then what kind? For more than twenty years of independence from Russia, Ukraine has not become a full-fledged state. Having used up what it got from the USSR, squeezed all the juice out of Soviet industrial assets, and gotten rid of the “alien” Russian elite, Ukraine has hit a conceptual dead end in its development. There is simply nowhere for her to move further in her current form. For Europe it is too wild, poor and uncivilized. For Russia it is too Russophobic, Bandera and overly infected with Western cultural codes. The project of the national state “Ukraine” itself became outdated immediately after its proclamation. The world has entered the era of large blocs, where security can only be ensured within the framework of large supranational entities. But becoming a political nation is not so easy. It is necessary to emerge as a people, with a common language, a single cultural matrix, and only after this can one begin to transform into a political nation. Ukraine, created as an artificial subject of history by Comrade Lenin, having gone through the Soviet period, turned out to be absolutely unprepared for independent statehood . Before our eyes, the “Ukraine” project is coming to its logical conclusion. We stand on the threshold of a historical choice of the peoples of the space that lies between Russia and Europe and has every chance of becoming the anchor of a large continental bloc from Vladivostok to Dublin, which European geopoliticians of the 20th century dreamed of.…