Center for Security Studies

The Sources of Russia’s Ukraine Policy

The Sources of Russia’s Ukraine Policy

Author(s): Andrei Tsygankov
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 158
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2014

Since the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Russia’s policy toward its western neighbor has evolved from unhappy relations with Victor Yushchenko to rapprochement with Victor Yanukovich and then confrontation over the revolutionary power change in Kiev in February 2014. In order to explain Russia’s changing policy, one has to consider both values and interests that guide the Kremlin’s actions toward Ukraine.

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