Ukraine’s Strategy for Building Relations with the Population of Crimea and Donbass. Lessons Learnt from Georgia for Ukraine 64 pages , pdf  Download Back

In 2014 the European security architecture was shaken by unprecedented redrawing of political map, when Russia annexed Crimea and supported separatism in eastern Ukraine. These events came to epitomize new Russian revisionist approach to the world order. It was year 2008, though, which was already a precursor to the current developments, when a 5-day Russian-Georgian war over South Ossetia served as a sobering reminder that offensive is still an instrument to handle disputes in Europe.Traditionally, Georgia and Ukraine found themselves to be two companions in misfortune – both were post-Soviet states with heavy Soviet legacies, troublesome relations with Russia that tried to hold them in leash, ambiguous prospects of their European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations, and painful reformation agendas. As of lately, since 2014, one cannot escape drawing another parallel between the two states – the problem of break-away regions, Georgian Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Ukrainian Crimea and Donbass.