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Item All's well that ends well: short story of Ukraine's road towards European Union membership(2024) Petrov, RomanThe state of the EU–Ukraine relations cannot be comprehended without a profound understanding of its historical, legal, and political evolution. In fact, the EU–Ukraine relations have always mirrored the entire complexity of the EU’s external policies, ambitions, and difficulties of the EU enlargement and today’s search for EU strategic autonomy. The objective of this article is to fill in the gap and to offer a three-dimensional analysis of the EU–Ukraine relations. The first dimension is the study of the historical evolution of the EU–Ukraine relations from the time of Ukraine’s independence in 1991 till Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Therein the EU–Ukraine relations are looked through the prism of geopolitical changes within and outside the EU. The full independence of Ukraine in 1991, so- called ‘Orange revolution’ in 2005 and the ‘Revolution of Dignity’ in 2014 have been linked to the evolving EU policies towards Ukraine and the entire post-Soviet area. The second dimension is a legal scrutiny of the main contractual documents between the EU and Ukraine since 1991. This article offers an in-depth study of bilateral EU–Ukraine agreements (Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1998 and Association Agreement of 2014). The third dimension is an attempt to comprehend how Ukraine’s bid for full EU membership in 2022 could help to stop the blatant military and humanitarian aggression by Russia and to contribute to a fair peace deal. The purpose of this article is to set out the framework of the study of EU relations with third countries in context of historical evolution of such country, geopolitical challenges around it, and legal nature of bilateral contractual tools and policies that, eventually, may lead either to a gradual integration with the EU or to the full EU membership.Item Christian Orthodoxy between Geopolitics and International Law. How the War in Ukraine Divided the Orthodox Church(2024) Petrov, RomanThe aim of this article is threefold. First, it scrutinises the historical and geopolitical reasons underlying the conflict between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople over the issue of establishing an autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Second, it highlights the Russian Orthodox Church’s alarming conformism and alliance with the authoritarian Putin regime in Russia. It illustrates that the Russian Orthodox Church became de facto the main ideological pillar of Russia’s brutal violations of international law and values of humanity in the war in Ukraine. This finalité made the Russian Orthodox Church act as a maleficent power (commentators use even stronger definition of ‘evil power’). Third, it studies the status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), which, due to its institutional connection to the Russian Orthodox Church, is seen as a national security threat to war-torn Ukraine. This contribution also examines if the prosecution of the Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be considered a significant impediment to Ukraine’s integration into the European Union (EU). These cases provide a good illustration of the dilemma faced by the Orthodox Church in the context of the war in Ukraine. The Church can either serve the national interests and geopolitical realities of its patron state or promote eternal Christian values of humanity, peace and non-violence at the expense of its reputation and well-being. The solution might look obvious but is in fact extremely difficult since no Christian church in the world can successfully confront totalitarian/autocratic regimes that openly disregard the fundamentals of international law and common values of humanity.Item Editorial(2023) Petrov, Roman; Zvieriev, Ievgen2022 was a year of tragic events for Ukraine and its peopledue to unprecedented military invasion by Russian Federationon February 24th. Kyiv-Mohyla Law & Politics Journal like many other Ukrainian academic periodicals and higher education establishmentshas faced unprecedented challenges of survival. Thus, we decided to postpone its 8/2022 issue and to merge it with 9/2023 issue. The editorial team has managed to attract and to review a number of high-quality articles, reflections and case notesin law and political science we propose to our readersin this joint 8-9/2022-2023 issue. All the materials have undergone thorough external review as usual.Item Editorial(2024) Petrov, Roman; Zvieriev, IevgenThe current issue of Kyiv-Mohyla Law & Politics Journal continues to follow the path of interdisciplinarity and resilience. Despite the ongoing aggression of Russian Federation against Ukraine and all the hardships connected to it, constellation of devoted authors, strict reviewers and editors, as well as respected sponsors has managed to offer high quality academic research papers. Five academic articles and three reflections submitted by the authors from Germany, Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Indonesia, and Ukraine focus on different areas of law and political science but most of these papers touch upon historic processes in Ukraine. This issue includes a number of research findings presented by their authors at International Scientific and Practical Conference “Principles of Law: Universal and National in the Context of Modern Globalization and European Integration Processes” held at the National University of KyivMohyla Academy on June 21-22, 2024.Item The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Its Accession to the EU(2023) Petrov, RomanThe Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 posed an existential challenge for Ukraine and the EU. On the one hand, it tested the EU’s resilience and political autonomy. On the other, it called into question the existence and territorial sovereignty of Ukraine—a country deeply committed to EU integration, having already sacrificed part of its territory and the lives of thousands of its citizens for the right to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in 2014. Nevertheless, the EU and its Member States remained reluctant to even acknowledge the prospect of Ukraine’s EU membership.Item Ukraine’s road towards the European Union membership in time of War: “Accession through War” v. Gradual Integration: European Union legal principles in action(2024) Petrov, RomanThese reports of a participant in the international scientific and practical conference "Principles of law: universal and national in the context of modern globalization and European integration processes", Kyiv, June 21–22, 2024.