Crimea: The Eternal Struggle Of National Interest Between Russia And Ukraine In The Light Of Classical Realism

Crimea: The eternal struggle of national interest between Russia and Ukraine in the light of classical realism

Introduction

Before continuing with the study on the possible relationship between the basic premises of classical realism and the explanation of the current tension relationship between Ukraine and Russia, a result of an important result by a historical review of the events that have allowed it to have reached this moment.

Ukraine has always been historically linked to Russia, as they share a clear ethnic and cultural origin. The Russian ideology in fact has its origin in kyiv territory that currently belongs to Ukraine. To Ukraine and Russia be part of the former Soviet Union, its governments and life forms were very similar and were under the same system. However, two facts can be distinguished that served as origin for the distancing between both nations.

Developing

The first is known as the Holodomor and refers to the policy that decided to implement Stalin in the early 30s that consisted of the payment by the Ukrainian peasant through the production of the Ukrainian grain- of the costs of the industrialization processesof the USSR. This measure drastically affected the peasants since many were deprived even their own production preventing themdeep resentment of Ukraine towards the authorities and leadership of Moscow.

The second event that further undermined the relationship was the event of April 26, 1986, because when the nuclear reactor number eight exploded in the Chernobil Central, the inability of the Russian government was evidenced to carry out effective control and maintenanceadequate energy source, which caused the affectation of more than two million Ukrainians and the loss of 4.

7 million fertile hectares (López, 2014).

In addition, the lack of action on the part of the Government for the clarification of the facts and their average scarce to carry out the timely evacuation and protection of citizens generated in the Ukrainians the feeling of rejection towards the central government of Moscow, which finally finallyHe unleashed in the fundamental role that Ukraine would play in the process of disintegration of the Soviet Union, a fact that was evidenced in his independence process through the referendum he made and that was approved with a favorability of more than 90% and the Belavezha Pactending the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to give way to a community of independent states. Event that will reach the recognition of Ukraine as an autonomous and sovereign republic. However, despite the separation,

Another aspect that began to influence the tension relationship between Russia and Ukraine would be the direction that the nascent republic -ucrania -and its conformation of allies would take, since it would tend more to the European side than to the Russian side, as evidencedthrough the so -called “orange revolution” with the pro -western measures that the leaders tried to promulgate -democratic advances, individual freedoms and approach to European institutions-. Aspects that begin to worry the Kremlin, so he used his energy resources as a political tool to exercise pressure on Ukraine’s actions in his favor.

conclusion

The last element that recently deepened the conflict was the decision of the president of Víktor Yanukovich to leave the signing of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, because this, who was a prorusary president, had to face the popular pop mobilization PRO Europeanthat refused to renounce the implementation of agreements that allowed the development of their economy and the appropriation of values that promoted the modernization of the State, so that the government’s response – institutional repressions forces – left miles of deaths and the dismissal of YanukovichThat, escaping the situation, he found refuge in his ally, Russia.