CANADA AND THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS
Journal: World Economy and International Relations
Year: 2018

Canada&lsquo;s attitude to the events in Ukraine in 2013&ndash;2018 is determined by two factors: general solidarity with western countries and the presence of a large Ukrainian diaspora there. Initially (November 2013 &ndash; February 2014), Canada viewed the Ukrainian crisis as an internal political one. However, after the entry of Crimea into Russia, Ottawa began to consider the crisis as international, as a confrontation between Russia and the West. It began to impose the first sanctions aga