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The national idea should naturally ripen in the society
Natalia Belitser, Expert of the Pylyp Orlyk Institute of Democracy  We should not wait fro the advent of understanding of national interests, the more so from outside. No use expecting that someone will lead us the way, which Ukrainians have to choose and tread on their own.
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The foreign-policy status of Ukraine should be a core of common idea
Maxym Rozumny, Head of the Department for Strategic Communications of the National Institute for Strategic Researches  Today there exist at least two contradictory Ukrainian dreams, sometimes mutually exclusive visions for our ideal future or Ukrainian project. These different visions are represented by different cultural traditions, different world views, different ideologies, and even different political forces.
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Without our own ideas, we are doomed to be in captivity of foreign ideas
Denys Bohush, President of Bohush Communications, Vice-President of Ukrainian PR-League  There are only isolated instances of understanding that emergent national idea motivates politics, economy, and effectively positions the country in the world. The EU and Russia have their own view of Ukraine and its place in the world. And if we fail to work out our own concept, we will live captivated by the ideas of our neighbors.
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A national idea must unite the east and west of our country
Andriy Rotovsky, President of the Ukrainian League for Public Relations, Director of the Center for Public Relations Rapid, Candidate of Philosophy  The eastern and western Ukrainians should look for something in common; meanwhile, the European values are a commonality. They are not an estranged entity abiding in the west, but something present here, in Ukraine, in Europe, for a long time already.
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«Our mission is in the sphere of spirituality»
Myroslav Marynovych, First Pro-Rector of Ukrainian Roman Catholic University, Lviv  The line of discontinuity between Latin and Greek civilizations runs, in particular, through our country. Therefore, we can find a formula of unity for Europe as a whole establishing proper grounds for the unity of Pro-Latin and Pro-Greek Ukraine.
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There’s the wandering ghost of global idea
Yuri Romanenko, political scientist  The uniqueness of our situation is in the fact that the geopolitical space around Ukraine is undergoing structuring, e.g. in Russia and EU, while Ukraine remains in its grey zone on its own.
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High time to face national idea
Oleg Vernik, coordinator of the Left Initiative  Until the bourgeois top brass speaks on behalf of the nation, the national issue will not be settled. They will make it to die down. Only when workers will speak on behalf of the nation, the problem will be solved; and workers can come to an understanding about it.
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«Training of common national memory must become a core of a new idea of national unity of Ukrainian people»
Tetiana Khorunzha, Spokeswoman of the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine, historian.  We are different, but equal. It is important that Crimean Tatars do not read in a textbook on history that Tatars are enemies of Ukrainian people, and a Jew knew that the Holocaust is a tragedy for an entire country, and Ukrainians do not feel ill at ease when somebody disgraces their history and memory.
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«People do not doubt the national idea, but the gibberish of politicos »
Olexandr Paliy, historian, political scientist, Candidate of Political Sciences  If a country has no mission of its own, it lags behind other nations dispersing its identity and losing future vista, if it doesn’t change its mind in time.
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The millennial history of Ukrainians shows that the Ukrainian people will never dissolve in the contemporary politically cultured Europe
Olexandr Vyshniak, Doctor of Sociology, Head of the Department of the IS of the NASU, CEO of Ukrainian Sociology Service Co.  The national idea concept is discussed either by Romanticists, or cynics. There is nothing like this in a democratic and pluralistic society. A common national idea is characteristic for authoritarian society only.
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«There is a long way to a national idea yet»
Olexandr Maiboroda, Deputy Director Overseeing Scientific Studies in the I. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of History, Prof.  Nobody respects people mostly tending to grieve over some kind of colonialism, like rural bondmen in the past favored serfage? In the globalized world, every nation will be treated like it treats itself.
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«People always have more ideas which they believe in»
Olena Stiazhkina, Doctor of History, Professor of the History Chair of Donetsk National University  The personality concept goes down into history; this notion has been recently replaced by such notions as person, changeable mask, and game. And, which is the most important, acquisition of material goods becomes the main mechanism of social control. And the global consumption needs no such brand as national idea. I believe that’s the problem.
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There is no national idea without moral leaders
Olexiy Krysenko, Candidate of Philosophy, Head of the Division of Ukrainian-Russian Regional Collaboration of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kharkiv Branch.  If there is no mobilizing national idea and, as a result, no consolidated nation, it needs external donors of sovereignty. In Europe there is but a handful of such states and all of them are traumatized by the new history.
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