The domestic legislation must become an efficient mechanism of preventing of ethnic conflicts in jural democratic state.

The Crimean Tatars is an indigenous nation, which has no Motherland but Ukraine. As for other nationalities, according to civilized principles, all rights of citizens must be respected, they must have possibility to develop their national culture, and favorable conditions should be created for preservation of national identity in the context of Ukrainian state.

Russians in Ukraine never were and will never be an ethnic minority. The Russians are a nation-making people. We can offer Ukraine nothing more than loyalty. And it is a good deal, taking into account millions of Russians in this country.

Some public men representing minorities’ organizations understand public aid only as financing of their organizations and cultural and educational actions. In this way they become grant addicts imitating irreal cultural activity of this minority.

Many Britishers are wrong believing that immigrants have special rights taking away jobs and increasing unemployment. Actually immigrants are of benefit, getting much less in exchange. People arriving to us are the most hard-working and ambitious citizens of other countries, for the most part they are young, do a good job and develop our economy.

Like Ukrainians, Armenians were deprived of their own statehood for a long time; Persia and Ottoman Empire partitioned our country. However, our church helped us to survive and save written language, traditions, and culture.

Ukraine has but to travel the way of post-industrial development. It is not ideological positioning that the ruling elite has to take care of, but response to modern challenges, which in the short term will help to crystallize the new Ukrainian subethnos and its elite.

The main problem in Ukraine is the legal uncertainty concerning Koreans, who live and work here illegally; even their kids cannot become legalized.

In the soviet passports many Roma where registered as Ukrainians. To my mind, Roma together with 134 minorities make up Ukrainian nation. They should feel themselves a kind of tumbleweed; to this end the state should back our social and cultural programs. This will prove that Roma is indeed welcome in Ukraine.

All of us—government, society, minorities—maintain that there are no ethnic conflicts in Ukraine. Moreover, we do not see any hidden or potential causes of it; although there may occur provocations.

The development of normative and legal basis, promotion of integration and policy of interethnic integration is a challenge for our ethnonational policy. Ethnic groups go about their culture, language, their free development will be sustained; in the meantime national integration should be based on common values.

In the 13th c., in The Story About the Ruin of Rus Lands there was an appeal to stick together. If all nationalities and people in Ukraine realize that it is their common good, common motherland and that they are to stick together, one will announce about an emergent formula of national consent.

A couple of years ago I’d have argued that Ukrainian society was tolerant. I doubt it now. The racism is on the go again: revitalization of the term Caucasian, despise of niggers in morals and manners.

The index of xenophobia goes up in Ukraine, but the dynamics is hiking during electioneering, when political parties capitalize on language and geopolitical issues. But I can not see interethnic conflicts here.

With its scarce finances Ukraine is doing its best to back the development of all ethnic communities.

In fact, international friendship is impossible. Human development is a process of social co-operation, when representatives of one original group enable another one to exist.

The period of cultural and institutional hegemony of «mild», democratic ethnic nationalism in Ukraine has come to an end. The values of multiculturalism and pluralism have strengthened.

Preservation of all languages, cultures, and identities is the major heritage of for Europe, and Ukraine could travel this way demonstrating to the rest of Europe this inestimable advantage of our choice. But one must realize it.

No way to deny that the variety of an organism is an indispensable condition of its development, when its constituents do not try to destroy each other; therefore the enrichment of coexisting cultures on one territory means the respect to the institutes of power, government etc. It is civil consciousness.

As in dialectics, unity is a result of opposition. A unity of nation does not mean the domination of one over the rest of them. Expansion of the rights to preserve originality, language, and self-affirmation is on the agenda. It strengthens the public ethnopolitical organism.

The Ukrainian Constitution grants us equal rights to participate in public life and administration. Nobody is against a minority which considers this land its Motherland and wish to work for its good and development.

The minorities wish to participate in the making of Ukrainian state; however it is nothing but superficiality. One of the reasons is the 16-year-long futile attempt to formulate all-embracing Ukrainian national idea.

The group consciousness helps a man to live, because the role of individual is downgraded today, while a group can survive. Consequently, self-identity can be treated as a way to survive and forward propositions for the globalization market.