Russian and Ukrainian Strategic Interests Among Conflicts and Accommodation

The disintegration of the Soviet Union — an absolutely unavoidable consequence of the previous functioning of the totalitarian system and the compulsory imposition of an overarching community — radically changed the situation in the world, creating a new complex of problems. Although the decades of fierce system and interstate opposition between the West and the East were seemingly being replaced finally by a stable period without acute collisions and cold war, the victorious West encountered a multitude of new threats to its own and international security.