| Language: | English | Abstract: | Ukraine is a politically unstable country, which plays a key role in the distribution of the Euro-Asian energy to Europe. With a natural gas and oil transit facilities capacity of up to 140 billion cubic meters annually, it represents world's largest national transit system. This was the reason for Ukraine to found itself as a main actor in the last year conflict with the neighbouring Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as RF). Afterwards that political and economic conflict between the two countries had over-grown their dimensions into the crisis in the international environment. On the internal political field, Ukraine had experienced a number of political crises, from the "Orange Revolution" to the frequent changes of the Governments, what has economically weakened it. With a new Government, Ukrainecan expect warming of relations with the RF and creating stronger ties with the European Union and the United States. This will yield better results for Ukraine from which that country could emerge from the economic crisis. Causes of the gas crisis in 2009 are very complex and include plans for the North and South Stream construction, with the main purpose of detour of the territory of Ukraine and a direct RF control over the energy export and directtransport to the consumer. It is therefore not surprising that the gas crisis had dictated the changes in the EU energy policy, which focused on the question of ensuring a stable and affordable energy supplies. Consequently, the EU Member States decided to increase the diversification of energy supplies, in order to break the monopoly of just one supplier, which led to the crises in the EU. | Keywords: | Ukraine, Russian Federation, gas crisis, EU, history, pipeline |
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