The peculiarities of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict («hybrid warfare») have been analyzed in the paper, as well as its importance to the European security has been revealed. The causes of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have been highlighted in particular. The term «hybrid warfare», its signs, methods and structural elements have been characterized. The application of the «hybrid warfare» term has been justified for the Ukrainian realities. Special attention has been paid to the information component of hybrid warfare in Ukraine. The basic methods of Russia's information aggression against Ukraine have been provided, including misinformation; propaganda; diversification of public opinion; psychological and psychotropic pressure; rumormongering. Particular emphasis has been placed on explaining the causes of globality of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The peculiarities of relations between the EU, Russia and NATO with regard to Ukraine as a sphere of their influence have been analyzed. The positive and negative aspects of diplomatic agreements (Minsk-1 and Minsk-2) regarding settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict at the international level have been covered. The role of such international organizations as UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, the EU in resolving the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have been evaluated.
The article is devoted to a historical overview and discussion of the current understanding and demarcation of the concepts “Central Europe”, “Eastern Europe” and “Central Eastern Europe”. The analysis is performed from a descriptive and comparative point of view, including a step‑by‑step generalization and separation of the above concepts and the verification of how natural, artificial or instrumental their character is, as well as by analysing their contrastive properties. In conclusion, the author has argued that the integration / disintegration and democratization / autocratization processes in the countries that used to be or now constitute different sub‑regions of Europe during the 20th and 21st centuries have led to significant and highly ambiguous changes in the spectrum of political, socio‑economic, religious, cultural (national and supranational) processes, etc. As a result, various attributes of political, socio‑economic and cultural development, in particular their diversity from the perspective of certain European sub‑regions (which are often, though mistakenly, treated as a collective category of countries of “commensurable type”), have previously predetermined and today especially predetermine the need for analysis of the history and the current state of conceptualization and demarcation of the outlined concepts.
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