The Russian Government And The European Council

with stealth powers and after moving into and possessing eastern parts of Ukraine, Putin was sending clear flags to his neighbors that endeavors to democratize, change, and incorporate all the more intimately with Western establishments like the European Union would not be allowed. Crimea is currently part of The Ukraine however

European Union Enlargement Eastwards The European Union (EU) is one of the Russian's key partners both in an economic and a geopolitical sense. EU-Russian relations are built on a partnership basis. Both sides acknowledge the importance of relations between the EU and the Russian Federation and express their mutual desire to strengthen and develop these relations further. On September 5, 1998 the EU presidency issued an open-ended statement on Russia during

the West views it as a threat to European security and a violation of territorial integrity. Crimea has been a debatable topic from the time it came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great. The justification then was similar to the reasoning being used by Vladimir Putin today. Catherine declared that she was protecting ethnic Russians in the region from the Ottoman Empire, much as Putin is claiming to protect Russians from Ukrainian

The constitution, which was established in 1993, gives too many and strong powers to the Russian President. Sometimes, people compare Russia's presidency with Charles de Gaulle in the French Fifth Republic Everyone knows about the authority and rights which Russian President has. He can issue decrees and directives that have the force of law without legislative review, but they should not contradict that document or other previous laws. The President has a power to make so many appointments of key

triggered Russia to create an autocratic regime, which from their perspective would create a better defensive environment. Russia's size and multicultural population was a big threat for disintegration, and thus required a strong centralized government. After the middle ages most of Europe began slow democratization process. For example Britain was sailing away from autocratic feudal system, developing a political system with more even distribution of authority. Russia on the

region of Crimea refers to the autonomous republic within Ukraine which lies on a peninsula from the south of Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.3 It is important to note that the region of Crimea contains a majority of ethnically Russian population. Although these individuals are still Ukrainian citizens, they (generally) identify closely with Russia. During this crisis, Ukraine faced the most amount of unrest from citizens since its independence in 1991.1 On February 28th, 2014

The conflict stems from the result of the Government’s decision to turn down the European Union proposed “association agreement” in 2013 and instead Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych accepted fifteen billion dollars in aid and other economic benefits from Russian President Vladimir Putin. For years Ukrainians have yearned for economic reform that would seek to open new trade and economic ties with Western European countries. President Yanukovych’s decision to reject the EU’s proposal ignored

Russia expands throughout northern Asia and most of the Eastern Europe region and it extend from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south. Russia’s total area is 17,098,242 sq. km and covers more than one eighth of the earth’s colonized land areas. This makes Russia the largest country in the world in terms of area, and it’s 1.8 times the size of the United States. Despite Russia being the largest

mirror current day events and which will be the first of a few case studies talked about, is the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Since 1945, the Hungarian people had been trapped under the greedy and tyrannical thumb of Moscow. Wealth was taken by the Russians who demonstrated their power by placing thousands of

creation of the United Nations, attempted hope came in the form of coalitions such as the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, The U.N. Human Rights Council and United Nations Security Council. The Institutions were given the mandate, by the United Nations, to be a last resort in the protection of Human Rights, even against a corrupted State Government and any other proclaimed authorities. These bodies have the jurisdiction to make judgements in support of the Universal Declaration