Neutrality for the Black Sea Region Countries: Abstraction, Unattainable Goal or Effective Model?
... are more in favour of joining NATO than their compatriots in the east). This leads to an extremely important point: people in Russia are troubled by NATO’s march towards its borders and are looking for checks and balances when it comes to the sides’ Euro-Atlantic aspirations.... ... (including residents of unrecognized republics as well as those living in individual regions of legitimate states such as Gagauzia in Moldova and the eastern regions of Ukraine) share these sentiments. And it is extremely dangerous when internal differences are supplemented with geopolitical rivalry ...