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leaders have been brought together in the "smart power" concept formulated by Joseph
Nye in 1990.
We should be fully aware that in the new geopolitical realities the development vector of
any country or even region is no longer geared at the available resources alone: it also de-
pends on human relationships, or the human factor which tends to change together with
the changing circumstances.
Yuri Shevtsov
, Director, Center for European Inte-
gration Studies
STRANGE as it may seem the first signs of a pos-
sible synthesis of two integration processes became
clearly visible as the Ukrainian crisis was unfolding.
In many respects it is a product of preparations for
the signing of the Association Agreement between
Ukraine and the EU which created many problems in their relationships with Russia. The
Agreement had been signed yet its postponed implementation reduced to naught its con-
sequence. The crisis, however, flared up and created new impediments for the continued
integration in the west and the east of Europe. There are, however, two unexpectedly pos-
itive processes worth of closer examination.
Mikhail Smolin
, Deputy Director, Russian Institute
for Strategic Studies
TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE this theoretical
problem does not and will not allow Russia to treat
this state as another neighbor. The ideology of po-
litical "Ukrainianism" keeps Ukraine away from the
integration processes unfolding across the post-So-
viet space.
Many correct words have been said about the heroization of Nazism and the revival of
fascism in Ukraine; the ideology of "Ukrainianism," however, is older than Nazism and
fascism; it was very much obvious in the Russian Empire. Russia cannot accept this ideol-
ogy not only because it has borrowed much from the ideology of fascism but for many
other reasons.
In Russia "Ukrainianism" is perceived as a problem because in the twentieth century
throughout which Russian civilization was coping with far from simple internal disagree-
ments it was doubted whether the South Russian population should be involved in building
the Russian world. The post-Soviet elite of the South Russian population fall victim to the
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