The Russia-Ukraine Relationship

The Ukraine and the U.S. Governments are similar and different in a lot of ways. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the two governments. The essay will begin with a breakdown of the countries’ governments. Then it will talk about each country’s history and culture. The essay will end with a summary of a current issue in each country.

Russia before Peter the Great was disconnected from Europe and did not have the technology that the rest of the world had. This position was largely caused by the Mongol invasion of Russia around the 14th century. However, before the Mongol rule, the city-states of Kievan Rus predominated the region. This settlement was established when the Vikings began migrating from Scandinavia to the Black Sea, merging with the East Slavic people. Soon after the creation of Kievan Rus, they converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and began trade with the Byzantine Empire. About 250 years later, the Golden Horde began controlling Russia, cutting it off from the rest of the Europe. When the Russians finally broke free from Mongol rule around the 15th

While chaos continued to spread across the country, Russia began to eye the territory of Crimea, one if Ukraine’s most southwestern territories and an area that used to belong to Russia until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. By the end of February, masked Russian troops without insignias took over the Supreme Council of Crimea and several strategic sites across Crimea. This event led to the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea and the declaration of Crimea 's independence. This spurred the Ukraine’s provisional government to request an emergency meeting with the U.N. Security Council in which they called on Russia to stop all military action in Crimea. By Mach 1st, Russia’s parliament approves President Putin 's request to use force

From 1785 to present day Chechnya and Russia have had conflicts. Starting in 1785, Russia only cared for the Caucasus region for its use as a communication track to Georgia. Russian allies Cossacks started settling in the Caucasus Mountains and that region began expanding. After they signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, they collected Georgia as a territory. They manufactured a road and military forts for security of the passageway. The Russians began to feel endangered because Sheikh Mansur started preaching an uncommon style of Islam. They tried to capture Mansur but failed. Since they failed they ended up burning the village where he lived.

8. Why were Igor, Olga and their son, Svyatoslav important rulers that contribute to the consolidation of the Kievan

The two countries, Russia and Ukraine, had different reactions towards the armed violence and impeachment of the Ukrainian president. Although the majority of the Ukrainians opposed Viktor’s decision to procrastinate the signing the EU-Ukraine integration agreement, all the ex-presidents accused for its interference with the affairs of Crimean. The former presidents of Ukraine, including Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma described the present crisis as Russia’s political interventions designed to interfere with the internal affairs of Ukraine and its relationship with the European Union (Hanschke 1). The people of Crimea have not been seeking for secession from Ukraine, but their interest is to have extended autonomy and rights to govern the Crimean affairs with minimum involvement of the government of Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, have dismissed the accusation and stated that it is pursuing the interest of the people of Crimea to join the Federation of Russia. Russia holds that the people of Crimea have the power to decide the future of their territory and Russia will be ready to respect their decision. Study shows that about 90

Russia has a long and complex history, I will do my best to explain it in this paper. Russia was believed to be started in 862 when the viking Rurik discovered the nation. There then was many tribes there that was only united for Christianity in the 10th and 11th centuries. The first Russian dynasty was in modern day Novgorod. At first Russia was called Kievan Rus with a large center city called Kievan. Back in those times the country wanted to convert wanted to a Muslim-style religion until, one of the leaders showed them that they couldn’t drink under that religion. That is when they switched to christianity. Kievan Rus thrived over modern day Russia for almost three centuries, but in the thirteenth century Russia was invaded by

After the Mongols destroyed Kiev, Russia was split into many different kingdoms. Ivan IV “the Terrible”, was the first Muscovite czar and is considered to have created the first Russian state in the 1500s. During the late 1600s and early 1700s, Peter the Great started western reformations of Russia and extended Russian territory to the west after defeating the Swedish at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. Alexander I defeated Napoleon during his invasion of Russia in 1812-13. He then created the Holy Alliance witch destroyed the Liberal European Movement. Then his successor, Alexander II, expanded the Russian border to the Pacific Ocean and into Central Asia. The USSR emerged on Dec. 30, 1922 and was dissolved in the early 1990s. During the history of the USSR, Stalin emerged as one of the most important leaders, mostly due to WWII. Though involved with Nazi Germany in the early years of the war, Russia quickly joined the allies after an attack by Germany on Russia. Germany pressed into Russia until it suffered a major defeat at Stalingrad, which became a major turning point in the war. After WWII Russia and the United States entered into the Cold War, which only turned hot in conflicts such as the Korean War and Vietnam. After the fall of the USSR, Russia entered financial turmoil and entered in many small scale conflicts with neighboring countries. But in 2000, after Yeltsin resigned, Putin rose to power and brought Russia under political

The conflict between the Ukraine and Russia is the Ukraine's most long-standing and deadly crisis; since its post-Soviet independence began as a protest against the government dropping plans to forge closer trade ties with the European Union. The conflict between Russia and the Ukraine stems from more than twenty years of weak governance, the government’s inability to promote a coherent executive branch policy, an economy dominated by oligarchs and rife with corruption, heavy reliance on Russia, and distinct differences between Ukraine's population from both Eastern and Western regions in terms of linguistics, religion and ethnicity (Lucas 2009).

In the Ukrainian crisis with Russia, there have been many non-state actors involved since the beginning of the invasion of Crimea. “From the Russian diaspora, non-governmental organizations, paramilitary groups and volunteer militias, there are a diverse range of non-state actors involved in the crisis” (German and Karagiannis, 2016). There has been a large impact in regards to religious groups with the Ukrainian conflict, such as the Russian Orthodox Church being able to rationalize why there was a need to invade Crimea. In Ukraine, a subset church of the Russian Orthodox Church broke off from the Russian Church to play a proactive role in assisting the pro-Ukrainian militias during the conflict. Organized crime and rise of militias have caused uncertainty for the country of Ukraine as the country lacks the ability to stabilize its regions against the crisis from the militias to Russia’s invasion.

According to the circulating news, I decided to choose the most relevant topic to what is going on in the world today, and has a more personal connection to myself. For the last 3 months the world has been obsessed with the Russian-Ukrainian issue. The cold-war, through the usage of a wide variety of mass media, has challenged people to believe that Russia has been brainwashing its own citizens, as well as believe that Ukraine had persistently tried to resist this open type of propaganda. The main idea of this "event" is throwing us back to the end of the 2013, when people had just decided to strike, because of the non-competency of our (Ukrainian) ex-government in signing the EU trade agreement. At first glance, it was just a simple reaction, just a few people came to "Maidan" to strike, but soon following something went wrong. People just became stark and indigent in their actions, thus Ukrainian citizens decided to change something.

The political climate in Ukraine favours EU membership, having, since the country’s independence, included a theme of ‘returning to Europe’, which was further enhanced by the Orange Revolution. After a time of political turmoil from 2005 to 2010, Ukraine has been recognised by the EU as having entered a period of political stability. The political spectrum in Ukraine seems to be converging in their approach to Europe, with only the minor Communist Party being opposed to further integration.

The political relations between Ukraine and Russia as the two independent subjects of international relations were established in 1991 after the eighth December of the same year signed the Belavezha agreement between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, which marked the end of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as " subject of international law and geopolitical reality "and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. From that moment we can talk about the beginning of the existence of full political relations between Russia and Ukraine.

Russia 's history began with that of the East Slavs, whom only emerged as their own distinct group in Europe somewhere between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior and his descendants, the medieval state

Unlike the rest of Ukraine, Eastern Ukrainians have received more of a cultural and linguistic influence from Russia. The Ukrainian people are descended from the nomadic, free Cossacks. The Cossacks “neither loved the tsar not the [Polish] lord” and were a people totally separate from the Russians and Polish (Magosci 19). The roots of Russia and Ukraine reveal that the name Russia is derived from the word Kievian Rus. The Kievian Rus were Ukrainian people who had established Kiev, “the capital of the ancient Russian state” (ExpatRu). The name “Russia” was eventually adopted by Peter the Great many years later. The Russian-speaking Ukrainians have been influenced a lot by Russian culture; they have adopted the language due to the constant transfer of power between Russia (including the USSR) and other countries. Due to the lack of this knowledge, the rebels have successfully manipulated the minds of the Russian-speaking citizens into thinking they are ethnic Russians. The support the rebels show toward Russia has given them protection; Russia already seeks to expand its territory, so they completely support anything the rebels do. Historically, Ukrainians and many western Russians are Ukrainian; the arrogance the rebels have