Образ человека будущего, Том 7 (СИ)

We share the opinion of Yuriy Shveda who stresses that the Revolution of Dignity was not a direct reaction against the Yanukovych regime"s rejection of Ukrainian national values. Three fundamental causes were:

1. Indignation of citizens toward the unprecedented rise in corruption.

2. Failure to sign the Association Agreement with the EU for the prospects of rapprochement with Russia.

3. The brutal violence that the police used on those who dared to express dissatisfaction with Yanukovych"s policies [Shveda, 2016:86].

The president escaped from Ukraine to Russia and the crisis in relation between Ukraine and Russia get deeper and deeper. At the result of direct and hidden military activity, Russia performed the annexation of Crimea. Two quasi-republics were originated at the East of Ukraine. This situation caused intensive refugees movement. The educational institutions also became the subject of evacuation processes.

Tragic experience of Ukrainian higher education and universities division

We already underlined that postcolonialism is comprehended as a fruitful methodological approach for discovering the logic of the contradictions of Ukrainian modernization. Higher education of Ukraine (HEU) is also the subject of postcolonial social and cultural dynamics: "The remains of colonial and totalitarian systems in HEU are perceived as its own originality and uniqueness. The danger of such narcissism is romanticization and glorification of reality that actualize the pre-modern practices and forms of education. Nostalgic motives about the

"effectiveness" of Soviet HE contribute to hybridization of totalitarian colonial educational elements into the system of global education, creating its illusory and imitative substitutes" [Gomilko at el, 2016: 182].

At the previous parts of the articles, we paid some attention for discovering the social and cultural preconditions of divided universities problem. Also we tried to substantiate the need of performing of ethical evaluation procedure at the "idea of university" values coordinate system. To check the fact that university fits the requirements of "idea of university" we decided to analyze the fundamental principles of contemporary universities declared at Magna Charta Universitatum.

This document contains the following fundamental principle: "The University is an autonomous institution at the heart of societies differently organized because of geography and historical heritage; it produces, examines, appraises and hands down culture by research and teaching. To meet the needs of the world around it, its research and teaching must be morally and intellectually independent of all political authority and economic power" [Magna Charta Universitatum, 1988]. It is a proved fact, that universities at uncontrolled (annexed) territories have no autonomy. Maybe one"s research and teaching are morally independent of political authority? We have no reasons to answer positively.

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Divided Universities: The Postcolonial Experience of Contemporary Ukrainian Higher Education by Denys Svyrydenko

Magna Charta Universitatum also places an emphasis on the fact, that freedom in research and training is the fundamental principle of university life, and governments and universities, each as far as in them lies, must ensure respect for this fundamental requirement [Magna Charta Universitatum, 1988]. This fundamental principle is also violated in case of the universities operated at the territory of annexed Crimea, some territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

From the other hand, students and teaching stuff that performed troubled (and even danger for their life) procedure of evacuation should be comprehended as people who are firm to the principal of Magna Charta Universitatum. This document rightly comprehended as a dense collection of the basic principles of modern idea of university. Thus, evacuated universities are evaluated positively by us from the ethical positions: these universities stayed firm to Ukraine as well as to university fundamental principles.