Ukraine After The Soviet War

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

Russia’s land grab in Crimea is possibly only the first of many. Pro-russian movements continue to spread in the countries surrounding Russia. With the current series of events happening in Crimea it could be possible that Russian influence could spread into these countries and covertly influencing pro-russian movements. With the recent events with Russia retaking Crimea there are many possibilities for what will happen next. Whether it could be a simple land grab or the beginnings of a new cold war or worse, all options are possible.

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

West versus East, the age-old battle of capitalism in opposition to communism, was the underlying factor of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, many former Russian controlled territories created their own countries and governments mirroring that of Russia’s. As the years passed, these countries are now finding themselves pulled between their historical Russian ties and European opportunities. This split had caused a lot of uproar in these countries on their future alliance, and has been the one of the lasting areas of conflict between the Russia and Europe. One conflict in particular, the Russo-Georgian War, rocked global politics for the five days that it lasted and demonstrated that these conflicts are

In the beginning of the election it was viewed as Kuchma staging an handover of power to his deputy Yanukovich much like how Putin did Medvedev. The reaction in the country was that he gave guarantees to Kuchma that he would be protected once he gets into power. This mirror's how Putin came into power in Russia with the handover of power from Yeltsin. During the election Putin would campaign for Yanukovich making seem like Ukraine was back in the influence of Russia. However, Yushchenko wanted no part of Russia and he promoted more of an alignment with the West.

    I am aware that on February 27, armed men from Russia seized your government buildings and Russian military men put Russian flags everywhere on barricades while disrupting innocent people’s homes. Crimeans protested these acts and shouted, “Ukraine is not Russia”, even though you are no longer part of Ukraine. Russia is trying to take over Ukraine by gaining

Ukraine used to be known as “Kievan Rus” before renaming it in the 16th century. During the 9th century, Kiev was the central focus politically and culturally in Eastern Europe. Keivan Rus maximized it’s intake of power in the 10th century due to the Mongol conquest in 1240, but not before adopting Byzantine Christianity. Between the 13th and the 16th century, Kiev was significantly influenced by Poland and Western Europe. In 1596, the negotiation of the Union of Brest-Litovsk dismembered the Ukrainians into Catholic faithful and Orthodox. When Ukraine had asked for protection against Poland from the czar of Muscovy in 1654, the agreement, it gave the interpretation to Moscow that it was an suggestion to take over Kiev, as a result absorbing into the Russian Empire.

Ukraine’s chief of State is president Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko. Its head of government is prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Ukraine’s constitution was adopted in 1996. The way Ukraine is different from America is that Ukraine has a 5 year election term while the United States only have a 4 year term. From a reliable resource online, All resources are cited in the bottom of the essay, it’s told that the president is elected by a majority vote through a two-round system. It also stated that the prime minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament. Anyone in the supreme council is

Their geography shows Ukraine’s crucial position. Their territory reaches far into modern Russia, but it shares borders with many EU members, including Poland and Hungary. This leads to political crisis between

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s recent accession to Russia are events that clearly highlight the underlying sources of conflict in global politics. While Russia sees its actions in Crimea as a “reunification” and the respect for the right of self-determination, 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 collapse of the Ukrainian government in 2014 resulted in the installation of a new pro-Western regime, a move that was met with resistance by Russia. On the other hand, The United States fully endorsed the new regime. This, along with other recent developments in Ukraine where Ukraine and Russia have been seen to clash, has led to talk as to whether the crisis could herald a new US/Russia Cold War. A historical review of the crisis in Ukraine reveals that the Crimea region was originally part of Russia before it was transferred to Ukraine in keeping with the due process. However, Russia still feels attached to the Crimea region emotionally. Based on the realist theory, it could be

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 the feeling of the majority of Ukrainian citizens and further solidified the sentiment that their government was strengthening ties with Russia and not with the west.

After twenty six years, the nations that were granted independence from the Russian Federation are still dealing with the affects of the fallout; In particular, Russia’s European neighbor, Ukraine. In an article dated September 29th, from the Russian News Agency TASS, it gives an overview of the recent implications of the civil war in the Donbass region. Russia and Germany are urging the Ukrainian Government to follow the Minsk Protocol, in order to keep peace and maintain a working relationship between all the countries listed on the agreement (TASS 2016). There has been constant conflict in the Donbass region since the beginning of 2014, with times of cease-fire, but nothing significant. The conflict is a result of the Russian demographic in Eastern Ukraine, wanting separation from a Western influenced Ukraine. This paper will examine the geographical aspect of this relationship and how it has affected the conflict.

To better understand the context for Russia’s intervention in the Ukrainian crisis, one has understand that Ukraine and Russia share a very complex historical relation with

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.