Research

Lifting international sanctions seems the only incentive for Russia to comply with the Minsk agreements.

The Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity in February 2014 led to fundamental and still ongoing changes both inside the country and in the region as a whole.

Ukraine’s relations with the neighbor recently gotten considerably warmer

Strategic vision of cooperation priorities instead of the reactive approach to bilateral relations

Ukrainian fatigue, the lack of positive image, “Minsk-2” process as both major success and greatest failure

For decades Ukraine has not effectively capitalized on its regional cooperation potential due to its lack of objective conditions, and its political will

Russia occupied Crimea against the background of a state vacuum in Ukraine and thedisorientation of the new Ukrainian leadership of the post-Maidan period

Although Ukraine has concluded cooperation agreements with all the neighbouringstates, many sensitive issues still remain on the bilateral agenda

Вespite the fact that the most brilliant strategic thinkers were drafting NATO strategic concepts some important threats were overlooked

V4 managed to invent a sort of separate regional identity, distinguishing the group from the long line of countries expressing “European choice” as their priority.

European Councilhas agreed that the duration of the economic sanctions against Russia shall be linked to the complete implementationof the Minsk agreements

While Kiev considers it a Russian–Ukrainian conflict, Moscow perceives it as a Russian–West confrontation