On October 24, the second session of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club a meeting with Andrey Artizov, Head of the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, was held. The session was titled “The Ukrainian Question – Its Origins and Consequences”.
Why did the events related to Ukraine provoke a crisis of such magnitude? In addition to geopolitical interests that have clashed there for centuries, there is a history of relationships between people whose self-identification and aspirations have changed under the influence of various internal and external factors. The complexity of the processes in that part of Europe has repeatedly led to clashes in the past, now it is another round.