This diploma thesis analyses Vladimir Putin's justification of the annexation of Crimea based on an interpretation of the discourse used in his Crimean Speech. The research uses the "Discourse- Historical Approach," inspired by Critical Discourse Analysis, as the methodological and conceptual foundation of the analysis. In addition, it incorporates other linguistic and social representation theories. The historical background of Crimea and Ukraine is used as a basis for assessing Russia's claim on Crimea. The analysis is categorized into four appeals: 1) the appeal to common history and culture; 2) the appeal to historical military involvement; 3) the appeal to justice; and 4) the appeal to international law. The appeals are contextualized using broader historical themes associated with the discourses used by Putin to justify the annexation. The interpretation is informed by historical context within each category. In the conclusion, the research presents the finalized interpretation, in which Putin's justification for the annexation of Crimea is shown to be constructed using the manipulation and selective recounting of historical facts. This diploma thesis uses a close textual reading and analysis of Vladimir Putin's Crimean Speech to expose the myths and manipulations he uses as a justification...

Since 2014, the increased interest of academia to the Ukrainian-Russian relations was reflected in the growing number of publications on this problematics. In spite of this fact, there still exists a research gap on representations of Russia in Ukrainian discourses, which are often taken as self- obvious. This in turn may lead to incomplete understanding of Ukrainian policies towards Russia. The specific aim of this work is to provide an additional instrument for understanding Ukraine's foreign policy towards Russia. In order to provide an insight into the way the Ukrainian government perceived Russia, discourse analysis of chosen articulations was conducted. As this work demonstrates, the central element of representations of Russia in the Ukrainian governmental discourse were systematic attempts to delegitimize the Russian foreign policy towards Ukraine through undermining legitimacy of the Russian leadership. This was done in a number of ways: the discourse actively used historical dimension and constructed categorization of good and bad periods of Ukrainian-Russian relations, characterized Russia as archaic, non-civilized and aggressive, and separated Russian political elites from Russian citizens, thereby undermining internal legitimacy of the current Russian regime. At the same time, the...

Zakarpattia Oblast of today's Ukraine has been a part of Hungarian Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Ukraine and then, after collapse of Soviet Union, Ukraine. The main goal of this thesis is to deal with the efforts of Rusins to gain the autonomy since 1848, the economic and social potential to become the autonomous part of Ukraine today and to deal with the question whether Rusins could be considered as the nation or not. Due to isolation of this peripheral part of the state by Carpathian Mountains, Zakarpattia has always been the center of autonomic tendences. According to M. Hroch term "nation" should have its objective (by which he meant language, history, culture etc.) and subjective traits (to realize themselves as a part of the nation). There is rusin language, history and culture, but the national consciousness of beeing Rusin is still missing.

The Master Thesis The depiction of events in Ukraine on photographs - ethical aspects of depicting conflict presents a case study focused on depiction of Ukrainian crisis in photographs during a defined period of time of 2014 in five Czech and five foreign newspapers. The first part of the thesis introduces the theoretical concepts that are the basis for the analysis. The analytical part presents the research of depiction of the Ukrainian events in news photographs in the daily newspapers using the technique of content picture analysis. The results let us compare the differences between the approach of the individual Czech and foreign newspapers to the issue of publishing graphic images of violence and its victims. Based on these findings, the thesis tries to define the contemporary trends regarding the ethical issues of photojournalism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The goal of my Diploma Thesis is to provide future investors, individuals who would like to start their business in Western or Eastern Europe with characteristics of the consumer market in these regions. Since if you start a business in a region with which you are not familiar, it is one of the golden rules to conduct a research in order to understand the political, economic, social environments, the level of the technology development etc. of the chosen countries. There are lots of factors which have to be studied in order to be successful in the market which is new for the company. My Thesis gives the portraits of the modern consumers in the West and East of Europe and obviously, provides with the deep analysis of the economy; geography; demographics; social class; consumer psychographics, religion, lifestyles etc. in the specific regions in the East and West of Europe. I also concentrated my analysis mostly on two countries -- Austria and Ukraine, since they are the bright representatives in their regions. And I gave a deep comparison of the consumer behaviors specifically in these countries. Consequently, after getting acquainted with this work, the interested individuals will be familiar with what to expect from consumer behavior in the regions which I analyzed, which factors to take into consideration when launching their businesses the first time in these parts of Europe.

Since spring 2014, an armed conflict has been taking place in the eastern part of Ukraine between the Pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian state. As a result of this armed conflict, there was a stream of forced migration. The statistics speak up to about 1.7 million people internally displaced and about a hundred other hundreds of people seeking international protection abroad. Of those seeking international protection, more than 200,000 have been granted temporary asylum in Russia. This thesis examines the impact of the Ukrainian armed conflict on the mobility of these displaced persons. The first way to study the impact of a selected conflict on population mobility is quantitative data analysis. In this analysis are compared the data on conflict intensity with data on internal migration in Ukraine and international migration to the states Russia, Poland and Czechia. The second way this diploma thesis examines the impact of the conflict on population mobility is based on the research of ten Ukrainians who left for Czechia from conflict areas and whose primary reason was the military conflict. The results show that there are links between the intensity of the military conflict and the migration strategy of the people of Eastern Ukraine.

Iniciatíva Spoločenstva Interreg IIIA sa zameriava na podporu cezhraničnej spolupráce krajín zúčastnených na konkrétnom programe. Program susedstva Maďarsko-Slovensko-Ukrajina /2004-2006/ predstavuje nástroj podpory maďarsko-slovensko-ukrajinského pohraničia, v rámci ktorého sú realizované konkrétne projekty na podporu a riešenie špecifických problémov. Program je špecifický, pretože je kombináciou programu v rámci Iniciatívy Interreg, ktorá je určená členským krajinám EÚ (Maďarsko, Slovensko) a programu TACIS, ktorý je určený kandidátskym krajinám (Ukrajina). Moja diplomová práca je zameraná na charakteristiku PS HU-SK-UA, charakteristiku a analýzu programového územia, orgány zodpovedné za program, implementačnú a finančnú stránku programu, typy projektov, ktoré boli doručené a schválené v rámci programu, celkové vyhodnotenie programu a na záver je to analýza a vyhodnotenie konkrétneho projektu v rámci PS.

Diplomová práce charakterizuje podnikatelské prostředí Ukrajiny, popisuje existující překážky obchodu (tarifní, netarifní), ekonomickou a politickou situaci. Práce hodnotí, jaké jsou příležitosti pro zahraniční podnikatele. Součásti práce je také popisování obchodních zvyklostí ukrajinských podnikatelů a znalostí, které jsou nezbytné při uzavírání obchodních smluv. Dále jsou analyzovány zahraniční vztahy Ukrajiny, její zapojení do mezinárodního obchodu, účast v mezinárodních organizacích a regionálních seskupeních. Pozornost je věnována vztahům České republiky a Ukrajiny ? vzájemný obchod mezi ČR a Ukrajinou, možnosti pro české podnikatelské subjekty. Na příkladě konkrétní české firmy jsou popsány problémy, se kterými se lze potkat při vstupu na ukrajinský trh.

Subject of my master thesis is evaluation of strategically important partners of Czech Republic in international trade: China, Russia, India and Ukraine taking into account their political and law environment, economic environment and social and cultural environment. All of this information is used for analysis of common international trade relations in past with special focus on last 10 years. In the final part of each chapter, dedicated to specific region, I predicted development of future trade relations and I defined strategically important areas of business that can help to accelerate Czech export to these markets.

This diploma thesis examines political risks and long-term investments and specifically focuses on a case study of the Odessa Port Plant. The aim of the thesis is to assess the investment opportunity into this enterprise in terms of political risks within the privatization process planned to take place in 2016. The literature review presents different theoretical approaches to political risk, briefly describes its history and place in theoretical foundations of risk management and offers means of dealing with political risk in practice. The key global trends and sources of political risks are characterized in this part, which also introduces theoretical bases of political risk analysis. The main part of the thesis describes the subject of privatization in the context of its importance to the state, its market position and environmental issues it arises. Then the investor risk profile is outlined and the political risk analysis is carried out. Finally, analysis results are synthesized in a summary, which includes conclusive recommendations on the investment considering investor's risk approach.