Contested space, Eastern Europe between Russia and the EU

CONTESTED SPACE: EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU March 2017 INFO@CER.ORG.UK | WWW.CER.ORG.UK 3 The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist on December 26 th 1991, but by then all 15 of its constituent republics had already declared their independence. This paper focuses on the six countries which belong to the EU’s Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine). These six have had the most turbulent times of any of the post-Soviet states since independence. They have endured varying degrees of internal

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