Seven Steps Beyond the Crisis Horizon: Reflecting on Past Mistakes

Familiar Problems and New Challenges for Russia Crises come and go, and life goes on. In early 2015, at the height of the Ukrainian crisis, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov wrote an article entitled “ Seven Steps Beyond the Horizon of the Crisis ” in which he proposed that we think about how Russia would build relations with the rest of the world “after Ukraine.” Five years later and the crisis has brought about neither compromise nor the collapse of Ukrainian statehood, and relations between...