What is the Role of the West in the Development of the Ukraine Crisis?

The crisis in Ukraine started in November 2013 with the popular uprising against a corrupt president Victor Yanukovych. The protest, which was named Euromaidan, has later developed into a broader crisis which involved territorial and human losses. Because of the involvement of different international actors, the crisis became a global issue. Moreover, due to the East-West division of global politics, Ukraine happened to be in-between two competing factions, who are, to some extent, believed to be responsible for the continuity of the crisis. Currently, both Russia and the Western world place blame onto each other, and no one can agree on a single and coherent solution to the crisis. This research will set out an analysis of different views of the Ukraine crisis with the focus on the evidence from both sides, the West and Russia. Russian and Western media publications, public speeches and foreign policy documents will be the point of study. The research aims to demonstrate the role of Russia and the West in the development of the crisis as well as to investigate the extent to which such geopolitical competition of two historically powerful actors created problems within Ukraine and internationally