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                                                                                 EU policy regarding the Russia-Ukraine war Ilona Chukhua Assistant of BA and MA programs in International Relations An enormous calamity for all of mankind and the entire world is the war in Ukraine brought on by a Russian onslaught. Notwithstanding this tragedy, it is imperative to reconsider the solutions and the primary tactics in order to create something for stabilization, bettering global policy, and other things. There are undoubtedly numerous difficulties, issues, and political players in the area who are influencing the political climate. We may say that this is not just Ukraine's conflict because virtually every country is involved in this particular scenario when Russia attacked Ukraine and ...

     Address of the President of Russia on February 21 and                            issues of the nuclear agreement   Nika Chitadze. Professor of the International Black Sea University. Director of the Center for International Studies President of the George C. Marshall Alumni Union, Georgia - International and Security Research Center   In the February 21 address of Russian President Putin to the Federal Assembly, which was specially timed to coincide with the approach of the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as expected, only distortion of facts and complete lies prevailed.   However, Putin still touched on one of the world's most pressing issues - the strategic nuclear arms control mechanism - when he announced that Russia was suspending its participation in the Treaty on the "Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms", which the Russians refe...

  Geopolitical Risks in the Eurasia Space: War in Ukraine and Russia’s Neo-Imperialistic Features Dr. Vakhtang Maisaia Krzysztof JANKOWSKI     Eurasia attracts attention not only because of its wealth of natural resources, in particular energy, but above all because of its ability to influence global geopolitics. The persistence of numerous unresolved conflicts in the region directly or indirectly affects relations between great powers and states of the greatest importance at the regional level. The dissolution of the Soviet Union revealed pre-existing regional tensions: ethnic or territorial conflicts that had been suppressed by the Soviet authorities. The outburst of some of these claims has created significant international tensions. On the global stage recently the violation of the principle of territorial integrity and the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and its support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine, unofficially also through...

 Energy Security Dilemma at the Post-Soviet Space – Caucasus-Caspian Region Case-Study Mirosaw Sowakiewicz Vakhtang Maisaia 1.       Introduction After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the existing international order underwent fundamental changes. The post-Soviet space has become a place of struggle for political and economic influence of several players; Russia, the West and China. Among the main subjects of the game were energy resources, around which political conflicts arose, related to access to them and issues related to the course of transmission routes (crude oil, natural gas). In the theory of international relations, natural resources are considered the second (after space) source of state power. It is assumed that countries rich in energy resources are superior to countries that do not have them [1] . Thus, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to a new 'big game' around the significant reserves of oil and natural gas in th...