The Ukrainian Crisis: Causes, Forms of Deployment and Possible Implications

Abstract

Ukrainian crisis of 2013 - 2014 is the result of a constellation of external and internal factors. Inside the country, during Viktor Yanukovych presidency, the split within ruling class has deepened. A very narrow group of people, so -called «Family», got a privileged position. This informal structure took advantage of the state apparatus for the redistribution of the social wealth in own favor. Opposition political forces to Viktor Yanukovych doubted if they would be able to win the next presidential election, so did the Family relatives. The upcoming president elections-2015, has turned into the threat that stimulated the search for illegal solution of the issue of power for the entire political elite of Ukraine. Protest potential of the Ukrainians became such a stockpile for the opposition. Ukrainian crisis in terms of foreign policy, associated with the struggle between the U.S. (the West) and Russia, a new round of which began around the issue of the termination of the civil war in Syria. During unfolding this confrontation Russian Federation turned from a peacemaker into the aggressor, and made its first annexation since 1945. The Ukrainian crisis looks like the fight to death between the elite groups using illegal methods. They use weapons against police, illegal referendums, involve external agents in the internal conflict. Over the entire period of the conflict no social problems were considered. Resolution of the conflict is possible only by means of a compromise within the ruling elites, and through the development of Ukraine as a legal, democratic and social state.