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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
5. Achieving Russian-Western Security Through People-to-People Relations
Author : Natalia Viakhireva
Published in: Threats to Euro-Atlantic Security
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Abstract
Russia–West relations have suffered dramatically in recent years. The Ukraine crisis of 2014 wasn’t the direct reason for this downturn, but it was a significant turning point. Instead, Russian experts point to the failure to ensure Russia’s security in the Euro-Atlantic space after the Cold War as one of the main reasons for the crisis. The result is that since 2014, political, economic and people-to-people relations have been transformed, and on the whole, worsened. The question of how to build a cooperative Russia–West relationship therefore remains open.