In the EU and NATO but Close to Russia — Post-Crimea Attitudes in Bulgaria and Hungary
Journal: Polish Political Science Review
Year: 2019

Abstract This article focuses on attitudes towards Russia in Bulgaria and Hungary — two EU and NATO countries with special relations to Russia — in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in support of separatists in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and onwards. We begin by putting the relations to Russia in a historical perspective. We then set out to account for support for Russia with the help of survey data from the Post-Crimea Barometer (2015) — a uni