Belarusian-Ukrainian Relations: From Neighborhood to Confrontation (2019-2021)

Abstract

Models of interstate relations in the Slavic triangle. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union initiated by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in December 1991, relations among three Eastern Slavic countries became an important factor in the development of the geopolitical situation in the post-Soviet area, European and international security. During more than 30-year period of independence, the relations between the countries in the Slavic triangle turned into a vivid example of integration and disintegration, convergence and divergence, cooperation and confrontation, the emergence of interstate disputes and attempts to settle them. The complex dialectic of tripartite Russian-Ukrainian-Belarusian relations was determined by a number of historical, cultural-civilizational, geopolitical, legal, political-ideological, socio-economic and other factors.