Approval of Democracy in Modern Ukraine: European Integration Discourse

Abstract

The study is dedicated to identifying the grounds and factors for the establishment of democracy in post-Soviet Ukraine. The objective grounds for establishing democratic values include national traditions, the territorial and spiritual unity of Ukrainians, and developed a civil society. Taken together, they create the basis for the formation of the main foundations of a consolidated democracy in Ukraine. The main challenges and threats to democracy in Ukraine are related to the functioning of the artefacts of a totalitarian society in the spheres of management, economy, culture, ideology, and, at the current stage, the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.Internal threats include the existence of confrontational dividing lines in society (regional opposition, shadow economy, corruption schemes, social injustice, confessional confrontation, resisting the establishment of the state language, etc.). The main external threats are the interference of the Russian Federation in the sovereign rights of Ukraine to implement its own development strategy.The guarantee of building a consolidated democracy in Ukraine is the collective will of the society itself, which performs a dual creative function: on the one hand, it acts as an initiator and donor of positive democratic changes in the country, on the other, it performs the functions of public control over the activities of all branches of government in their observance of the constitutional principles of state life. The fundamental result of the consolidated efforts of the authorities and civil society is Ukraine's legislatively supported integration course.