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25 февраля 2014 г. ситуацию на Украине прокомментировал главный научный сотрудник Центра проблем развития и модернизации д.и.н. Г.И. Мирский в своей статье "Russia is right to be upset over events in Ukraine" на страницах издания Financial Times.
"Ukraine’s role is pivotal to the great Russian state – whether yesterday’s Soviet Union or today’s federation. Two decades ago, I told my foreign colleagues that the USSR could survive without any of its 14 other republics. I have no doubt it collapsed when Ukrainians voted in a referendum in favour of independence in 1991.
The reason is not the economy. Ukraine was the most industrially advanced of all the Soviet republics, yet Russia can do without it. Ukraine badly needs Russian oil and gas, yet no disaster is in sight even if Moscow breaks its economic ties with Kiev altogether, which is highly unlikely..."
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