9 March – talk of rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Ukrain­ian Embassy Liubov Abrav­i­to­va and Andiy Kuzo­ra “Ukraine’s price for Euro­pean choice: a trou­bled rela­tion­ship with Rus­sia. The Roots and Ori­gins of Con­flict in Ukraine” — 86 par­tic­i­pants

Dur­ing the last three years, the peo­ple of Ukraine have been fight­ing for their free­dom, inde­pen­dence and Euro­pean path in a war start­ed by Rus­sia-backed ter­ror­ists and their prox­ies.

The Russ­ian annex­a­tion of the Crimean Penin­su­la and mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion in the East of Ukraine, direct­ly chal­lenge the post-Cold World sys­tem.

Ukrain­ian mil­i­tary forces suf­fer heavy loss­es in bat­tles against ter­ror­ists equipped with the newest Russ­ian weapon­ry.

Ukraine has shown to the world the reports of the pro-Russ­ian thugs shoot­ing women and chil­dren, cyn­i­cal­ly call­ing it a “pro­tec­tion of the Russ­ian-speak­ing pop­u­la­tion.” Rus­sia already even not denies its mil­i­tary involve­ment and has pre­sent­ed its poli­cies as a reac­tion to the repres­sion of eth­nic Rus­sians and Russ­ian speak­ers.

This pre­sen­ta­tion aims to explain the roots and ori­gins of the chain of recent events in Ukraine and its reper­cus­sions for the world order and Inter­na­tion­al Law.

Dur­ing our dis­cus­sion, we will try to ana­lyze Russ­ian legal and polit­i­cal claims used by Moscow to annex a part of Ukrain­ian ter­ri­to­ry as well as to jus­ti­fy its inter­ven­tions in the East of Ukraine.

We also will exam­ine sev­er­al expla­na­tions of the Russ­ian actions in Ukraine:

• geopo­lit­i­cal com­pe­ti­tion;
• search for iden­ti­ty idea for the inter­nal polit­i­cal con­sol­i­da­tion in Rus­sia.