Le mot «Ukraine», si je ne me trompe pas, signifie «frontière» ou «bord» et là, il s’agit d’une séparation entre deux grands blocs, de la division entre slavophiles et occidentalistes dans ce pays où se reflètent les ambitions rivales des puissances voisines.
The name of Ukraine, as I understand it, means ‘frontier’, or ‘edge’, and here it is as an edge between two large blocs, the division between Slavophiles and Westernisers within that country being mirrored by the rival ambitions of its neighbouring powers.