The study titled “The Citizens and the State in the Government-Controlled Territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions: Problems, Challenges, and Visions of the Future”, presented by the UCIPR in Brussels was published in Kyiv in September 2017. How do Ukrainians live “in two steps” from the line of fire? What are their main social and domestic needs, what they fear and what they want from the Ukrainian state, what they think of Ukrainian military, are they inclined to dialogue and reconciliation with those citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk who were in ORDLO? The whole range of problems that exist in this extremely sensitive region in the “grey zone” of the country is analyzed in the UCIPR’s study by Yulia Tyshchenko and Yulia Kazdobina. The study was carried out in assistance with Alert International and funded by the European Union.
An important part of the study was the anonymous interviews and focus groups conducted by our analysts in the summer of 2017 in Bakhmut, Volnovakha, Novotroitsk, Kramatorsk, and Slavyansk, covering various social, age, and gender groups. The focus groups also included citizens who regularly visit or live in the non-government controlled territory of Ukraine, or have an experience of constant communication with residents (parents, friends, relatives) in ORDLO, as well as internally displaced persons.
Download the study
