The main problematic aspect of the current development of the European space, directly influencing the situation around Ukraine, is the sharpening of the finance-economic problems in the EU countries
V. Putin’s return to the post of the President of the Russian Federation was marked with a sharp activation of neo-empire and neo-colonial components of Russia's foreign policy. First of all, it concerns the strategic initiatives of Moscow as to the foundation of the Euro-Asian Union, which is now the main idea and one of the main directions of the RF's leaders' activity.
Iran’s influence on the situation in the Near East region and Persian Gulf is growing and, no doubt, alarms the USA and its allies. Especially this growing has accelerated after the USA withdrew their troops from Iraq. At the moment the Islamic Republic of Iran is in fact the most influential military force in the Persian Gulf zone.
Customs Union as an Instrument of Implementation of Russia's Geo-Political Plans at the Post-Soviet Area
A strategic goal of the Russian Federation’s foreign policy at the current stage of its development is reestablishment of its role of a great world state, equal to other world centres of force. Achieving this goal means establishing Russian control at the post soviet territories through various integration structures, which include countries of the former USSR.
Bohdan Sokolovskyi
Traditionally, energy remains the main driving force of the world economy. Industrial revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries confirm this. The first one was connected with mass production and use of coal, the second one - with oil and gas. Later nuclear power played an important role.
Problems of the Ukrainian electric energy system will be investigated in a number of materials, the first of which we are offering to our readers' attention. This important for Ukraine industry and problems connected with it, had for a long time been in the shadow of the so called gas policy. But then the situation began to change. With the current crisis in the Russian- Ukrainian gas relations as the background, we begin to realize that the electric power itself can play a key role in the energy security and independence of the country.
There’s no direct threat to Ukraine
Victor Hvozd
"MAP doesn’t mean NATO membership...»
