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“No One Needs Monsters: Desovereignization of Ukraine.”

28.

Yuriy Shcherbak, “Ukraine as a Failed State: Myths and Reality,” The Weekly Digest 15, Kyiv (May 26, 2009).

29.

Quoted in Nicu Popescu and Andrew Wilson, “The Limits of Enlargement-Lite: European and Russian Power in the Troubled Neighbourhood,” Policy paper (London: European Council on Foreign Relations, June 2009), 29.

30.

Since 1992 there has existed in Ukraine, alongside the official Orthodox Church that recognizes the Patriarch of Moscow, a rival independent Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UPTs-KP), led by Patriarch Filaret.

31.

Pavel Korduban, “Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill Visits Ukraine,” Eurasia Daily Monitor 6, no.155 (August 12, 2009), 5.

32.

James Marson, “Faith or Politics? The Russian Patriarch Ends Ukraine Visit,” Time (August 4, 2009).

33.

Korduban, “Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill Visits Ukraine.”

34.

Cf. Hélène Blanc and Renata Lesnik, Les prédateurs du Kremlin [1917 –2009] (Paris: Seuil, 2009), 263.

35.

“Dear Viktor, You’re Dead, Love Dmitry,” The Economist (August 22, 2009).

36.

Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote: “Dressed all in black, including a black turtleneck sweater—a color scheme once favored by Benito Mussolini—the former KGB lieutenant colonel and now president, Vladimir Putin, addressed thousands of enthusiastic young supporters filling a Moscow sport stadium on November 21, 2007.” (Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Putin’s Choice,” The Washington Quarterly 31, no. 2 (Spring 2008), 95.)

37.

Dmitry Medvedev, “Relations between Russia and Ukraine: A New Era Must Begin,” President of Russia Official Web Portal, August 11, 2009. Available at http://eng.kremlin.ru/text/speeches/2009/08/11/0832_type207221_220745.shtml.

38.

Medvedev, “Relations between Russia and Ukraine: A New Era Must Begin.”

39.

Richard Sennett, Authority (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 89.

40.

Sennett, Authority, 79.

41.

Medvedev, “Relations between Russia and Ukraine: A New Era Must Begin.”

42.

“Ukraina ne stanet nablyudatelem pri TS do 2015 g.,” kapital.kz (May 20, 2013).

43.

Cf. Oleg Varfolomeyev, “Ukraine Seeks Both Association Deal with EU and Observer Status in Customs Union,” Eurasia Daily Monitor 10, no. 101 (May 29, 2013).

44.

Cf. Fyodor Lukyanov, “Imperiya sdala passport,” Rossiya v Globalnoy Politike (December 13, 2012).

45.

Vladimir Socor, “Will Poland Consider a Gas Deal with Russia at Ukraine’s Expense?” Eurasia Daily Monitor 10, no. 67 (April 10, 2013).

46.

Cf. Devin Ackles and Luke Rodeheffer, “Eurasian Paper Tigers,” New Eastern Europe (June 24, 2013).

47.

Oleksandr Sushko, et al., “EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Guideline for Reforms,” Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, KAS Policy Paper, no. 20 (Kyiv, 2012), 6.

48.

Margarita Lyutova, “Ukraina stanet nablyudatelem v Evraziyskom Soyuze ne ranee 2015 goda,” Vedomosti (May 20, 2013).

49.

“Interview given by Dmitry Medvedev to Television Channels Channel One, Rossia, NTV,” Sochi (August 31, 2008). President of Russia Official Web Portal. http://www.kremlin.ru/text/speeches/2008/08/31/ (emphasis mine).

50.

Brzezinski, “The Premature Partnership,” 80.

51.

Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, 95.

52.

Another analyst of Polish origin, Janusz Bugajski, also warned that “Russia under Putin has evolved into an imperial project . . . . The Russian regime defines its national interests at the expense of its neighbors, whose statehood is considered secondary or subsidiary and whose borders may not be permanent.” Cf. Janusz Bugajski, “Russia’s Pragmatic Reimperialization,” Caucasian Review of International Affairs 4, no.1, (Winter 2010). http://www.cria-online.org/10_2.html.

53.

“The Polish Model: A Conversation With Radek Sikorski,” Foreign Affairs 92, no. 3 (May/June 2013), 5–6.

54.

“The Polish Model: A Conversation With Radek Sikorski,” 6.

55.

Vaclav Havel, “L’alliance euro-américaine doit s’approfondir en s’élargissant,” Le Monde (May 21, 1997).

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