Events in eastern and southern Ukraine in retrospect of post-soviet relations

Acontecimientos en el este y el sur de Ucrania en la retrospectiva de las relaciones postsoviéticas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4073.28
Keywords: post-Soviet space, Black Sea Fleet, international security, Crimean crisis, invasion of Ukraine

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to periodize the study of interstate relations and the course of events in eastern and southern Ukraine in the period: 1991-2015. The historical and comparative-legal method was used to solve the problem posed. The article analyzes the events in eastern and southern Ukraine during 1991-2015, taking into account Russia’s influence on social and political processes in post-Soviet Ukraine through the process of forming Ukraine’s international subjectivity, which are permanent factors in bilateral relations with the Russian Federation. In this context, Russia’s inability to recognize Ukraine as a full-fledged international actor at the legal and substantive level is demonstrated. It is concluded that the events in Ukraine not only provoked the strongest confrontation between the two largest states of the post-Soviet space, but also exposed a number of problems throughout the international security system. The armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine was accompanied by numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity. The competent state authorities must calculate the amount of material and moral damage caused by Russia.

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Author Biographies

Iryna Krasnodemska, Historical Studies Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Candidate of Historical Sciences, head of the Department of Historical Studies Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, street Isaacyan, 18, com. 312 , Kyiv, Ukraine, 01135.

Hanna Chechelnytska, University of Customs and Finance, Dnipro, Ukrainе.

Ph.D. docent Associate Professor University of Customs and Finance (Dnipro), Department of History and Theory of State and Law, Street: Vladymyr Vernadskyi st., 2/4, Dnipro, Ukrainе.

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Published
2022-07-08
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Krasnodemska, I., & Chechelnytska, H. (2022). Events in eastern and southern Ukraine in retrospect of post-soviet relations: Acontecimientos en el este y el sur de Ucrania en la retrospectiva de las relaciones postsoviéticas. Political Questions, 40(73), 506-526. https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4073.28
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Vol. 40 No. 73 (2022): Cuestiones Políticas
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