RUSSIA-UKRAINE: ВRINKMANSHIP – BALANCING ON THE BRINK OF WAR? ; РОСІЯ-УКРАЇНА: BRINKMANSHIP – БАЛАНСУВАННЯ НА МЕЖІ ВІЙНИ?
In the article the are analyzed the safety aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian military and information conflict. There are offered the ways of its solving as well as the ways of the achieving peace in the Eastern part of the State. The attention is paid to the characteristics and evaluation of the military confrontation in Donbas as well as to the role of the Western countries in its overcoming.When the Ukrainian establishment and the Ukrainian nation realize their otherness, their self-sufficiency then the imperial pride of Russia will disappear. Unfortunately we still don't have a realistic, fundamental conception of the development of Ukraine as a State in accordance with the European sample. And a clear system of the state priorities, ideological values, main principles of the national ideology is not formed yet.Instead in the article 15 of the Constitution of Ukraine we can read as follows: «The social life in Ukraine is based on principles of the… ideological diversity. No one ideology can be recognized as a mandatory one by the State». Due to this almost on all of the levels of the state of the hierarchical ladder the outlines of the Ukrainian state building seem to be very indistinct. As an obstacle for the idea of the state building again arises an worldview uncertainty. Besides, there is a lack of the holistic system of the national landmarks.Without a clear Ukrainian, deeply patriotic ideology it is impossible to rally and combine the society in an only full-fledged organism, that would be able to give a proper military and informational repel to the enemy. Patriotism as a basis for the state ideology is a foundation of every state construction.Key words: war, conflict, information, international agreements, system, army, compromise, state, politics, ideology, patriotism. ; У статті проаналізовані безпекові аспекти російсько-українського воєнного та інформаційного конфлікту. Запропоновано шляхи його розв'язання та досягнення миру на сході країни. Приділено увагу характеристиці й оцінкам військового протистояння на Донбасі та ролі держав Заходу в його подоланні.Ключові слова: війна, конфлікт, інформація, міжнародні угоди, система, військо, компрміс, держава, політика, ідеологія, патріотизм.