This article analyses two important issues: the human rights situation in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, and the actions of the Ukrainian government implemented to secure ties with citizens of Ukraine residing in Crimea. In the first part of the article, human rights violations committed by the…
When justifying the seizure of Crimea, the Russian president pretended to be a victim of the Western policy and manipulatively argued that the only way to confront NATO’s illusory penetration into the Ukrainian peninsula was to “facilitate” its “reunification” with Russia. The obsession to tear Crimea away from Ukraine appeared to be one of the…
An important part of Russia’s grand strategy since the 1990s has been the use of conflict zones across the post-Soviet space for geopolitical aims. Moscow’s battle with the West over the borderlands – i.e., the regions that adjoin Russia from the west and south – has involved keeping Moldova, Ukraine, and the South Caucasus through…
Information security has become a strategically important aspect of international relations. Rapid development of information and communications technologies increases its importance. This paper focuses on the analysis of Russia’s capabilities to achieve its foreign policy goals through methods of negative informational impact. Attempts to undermine the information security of Poland and Ukraine and to provoke…
In the 21st century, states employ concealed ways to destabilise adversaries and achieve geopolitical goals, thus resorting to hybrid warfare. This may include economic pressure, interference in political affairs, cyber-attacks, disinformation, and other means. Considering the most recent manifestations of hybrid warfare between states, the dilemma is how to build nations’ resilience to such threats….
For the last few years, the Black Sea region has become a top priority of the Ukrainian foreign policy. However, due to the years of ignorance and absence of a strategic vision, Ukraine has not used all opportunities, while many projects, such as BLACKSEAFOR, cannot be used anymore due to the Russian aggression. In this…
Interview with Petras Au?trevi?ius, Member of the European Parliament Chair of the European Ukraine Group in the European Parliament Can the European Union as an organisation be a successful mediator in current conflicts around the globe? What can be priority regions for such a mediation? The European Union’s ambition to be a real global player…
In this paper, efforts deployed by the EU to reform the police in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine, as part of a broader peacekeeping and peacebuilding strategy, are analysed from a critical and comparative perspective. It is argued that the EU was able to influence the policymaking process because of a positive conditionality policy and…
In this article the author elaborates upon possible “hybrid peace” and the EU’s new perspectives in resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine in the framework of the Common Security and Defence Policy. The conflict resolution will hardly follow the classical and predetermined approach of peaceful settlement, such as the package of the Minsk Agreements I…
Interview with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Leader of the political party “Golos” New political forces in the Ukrainian parliament: Are there more risks or opportunities for the development of Ukraine? I am a member of the Golos (Voice) party in the new parliament. We are the new faces, and we want to change our country. We got…
