Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2015 8) 981-993 ~ ~ ~ УДК 141.201 Social and Philisophical Problems of “Post-Soviet Space” (Exemplifi ed by Ukraine) Michel P. Yatsenko* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 09.09.2014, received in revised form 11.12.2014, accepted 16.01.2015 Problems associated with the threats that globalization brings to the peoples of the world are analyzed in the article. <...> In this respect, collapse of the Soviet Union and its consequences are of fundamental importance for the understanding of political, socio-cultural and ethnic processes taking place in the “post-Soviet space.” The author emphasizes that a lot of tendencies that characterize the “post-Soviet space” are most pronounced at a series of “color revolutions”. <...> The author analyzes causes and nature of the confrontation on the Maidan. <...> The article shows that the “independent” Ukraine for almost a quarter of a century failed to fi nd not only a worthy place in the world, but even a distinct socio-cultural identity. <...> It is connected not only with the deep contradictions inside the Ukrainian society that have been accumulating for centuries, but also with arrogant external interference. <...> The recent events in the center of the capital of Ukraine showed complexity of civilization choice of the “post-Soviet republics” in the context of globalization. <...> As we are moving closer to the Maidan we are more overcame by a sense of tragicomedy: such a wild combination of camoufl age, cameras fl ashes, bags with dissolving winter, etc. – even Salvador Dali would envy. <...> Indeed, such barbarism in the twenty-fi rst century should be captured, as the road that leads not only to government buildings, but also to the Lavra is destroyed… Michel P. Yatsenko. <...> Social and Philisophical Problems of “Post-Soviet Space” (Exemplifi ed by Ukraine) The Ukrainian government is so absorbed in studying history that makes striking discoveries. <...> If the globe of Ukraine can be considered only as a tourist attraction, but the newspaper “Holos Ukrayiny” – quite serious, offi cial organ of the Verkhovna Rada, gives the whole newspaper column for the article proving that the great prophet Buddha has Ukrainian roots. <...> The main pathos of work is not confi rmation of the identifi ed civilizations’ hierarchy, but their juxtaposition and comparability. historical types <...>