On the eve of the panel we have just discussed, together with Ambassador Vaitiekunas, what the reasons are and what the consequences of the crisis that we see today should be. This discussion directly relates to the topic we discussed with you during this plenary session. When did the crisis emerge that led to this attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, to the annexation of the Crimea, before the so-called hybrid war in Donbas? Can we find the day of the beginning of this crisis?
It is my pleasure to join you. Unfortunately, I can only hear you, but I cannot see you. I had the opportunity to hear Mr. Horbulin’s presentation and I agree with all he said. I'm sorry I was not able to hear the other presentations. But I think it was very interesting. And now, back to your question of what NATO has made, I want to clearly outline the prospects based on what is currently happening.
The policy of Russia is an expression of internal processes of the Russian state and society. In concentrated form it reflects the vital interests of this country and the contradictions it faces in the international environment during their implementation. The main domestic concern of Russia consists in the need of preservation and consolidation of the post-Soviet development model based on authoritarianism of personalized power and paternalist society.
Dear gathering, the presentations by Messrs. Hryhoriy Perepelytsia and Yevhen Marchuk indeed prompt to conclude that some remarks are probably to be made on a common political security order prevailing today.
Speaking about multi-polar world, Mr. Perepelytsia focused only on one of three existing models. Why do I focus your attention on this? Because the issues of multi-polarity are widely discussed by both practitioners and theorists. However I would like to recollect that it was at the time of the bipolar world, when this subject came up strangely enough for the first time, when Yevgen Primakov, who passed away not long ago, was the first to offer establishing of a triangle “Moscow-Delhi-Beijing” in opposition to the North-Atlantic Alliance regarding all the issues related to the common security policy, as well as economic issues to some extent, no matter how strange it may seem.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/12/us-comprehensive-strategy-toward-russia
http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/4-2015-four-types-of-russian-propaganda/
http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/2-2015-is-russian-politics-still-virtual/