The Experience of the European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Central-Eastern European and Baltic Countries

Ukraine has always been referred to as a part of the European world, that is as an inseparable component of the western civilization. To this testify the historic relations between Ukraine and Europe which helped to form the Ukrainian nation with its culture and values. Similar relations with Europe have other western Slavs, considering themselves European nations.

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Victor Hvozd: “Being Peacekeepers Is Not a Walk to the War”

The adoption of the UN resolution about celebrating the International Peacekeepers’ Day took place exactly at the time when you were working in the Constant Representation of Ukraine in the UN in New York. Could you kindly recollect how the events, concerning the establishment of that day, developed? You know, many things in this life are made impromptu…

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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.

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Prospects of a New Energy Revolution in the World and Its Possible Geopolitical Consequences

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.

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