What Is the Difference Between Europe and Russia?

The conflict is often represented as fundamentally about regionally based identity. But Crane argues that this identity politics has a material basis. The concentration in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine of the heavy soviet industry dependent on the markets of russia and other x us. S r countries. How is that shaped the country's political divide? And then how is it that those materially based differences get expressed as a conflict over language, identity, culture?"