Helsinki+40 in the Historical Context
Journal: Security and Human Rights
Year: 2014

The Ukraine Crisis has negatively impacted the reform process ‘Helsinki+40’ of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( osce ). The idea to conclude this process by holding an osce summit in 2015, celebrating the 40 th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, evaporated after Russia’s annexation of Crimea. To overcome the differences with Moscow, it is necessary to compare two radically different narratives on the evolution of the osce after 1990. As long as historical facts are