RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN DISPUTES OVER SOVIET LEGACY AFTER 1991. BULGARIAN DIPLOMATIC PERSPECTIVE
Journal: Revista Moldovenească de Drept Internaţional şi Relaţii Internaţionale
Year: 2024

The article explores the Russian-Ukrainian Cold War and Russian-Ukrainian disputes about the Soviet legacy after 1991 through the prism of Bulgarian diplomatic analysis. The main source material is unpublished documents from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as published archives - the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre, and the American National Security Archive. Thematic circles focus on the Crimean Knot, Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet, and