What are the roots of the current crisis within Ukraine? Please be certain to address issues such as language, religion and ethnicity in your response.
What will be an ideal response?
Ukraine has a profound east-west divide. The western half of Ukraine is ethnically Ukrainian, speaks the Ukrainian language and is largely Roman Catholic. The eastern half of Ukraine is largely comprised of ethnic Russians who speak Russian and follow the Russian Orthodox Church. Deeply contested elections in both 2004 and 2010 deepened the divide. The election of a pro-Russian president in 2010 triggered reforms which placed Ukraine more into the Russian economic and political orbit to the anger of people in western Ukraine. President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in 2014, and event which prompted Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops into the Crimean Peninsula, a region of Ukraine which is overwhelmingly Russian. This triggered a pro-Russian uprising in the eastern part of Ukraine. More than 6000 people have died in the Ukrainian civil war and at present roughly 25% of Ukraine's territory is under the control of Russian rebel forces who wish to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
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