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The new Ukraine is born in pain. There are twelve months, 21 February 2014, protesters in Independence Square in Kiev, caused, at the price of a hundred killed, the fall of President Viktor Yanukovych. Since then, a new power was installed, led by Chairman Petro Poroshenko and Arseny Yatsenyuk Prime Minister. The two men and their respective teams attempt to implement the aspirations of the Maidan protesters. But the situation is far from stable: Ukraine is little to say, through a very difficult period. Adapted from the source document.

Ukraine and Russia have always maintained close relations. How is it that these relations are at this point deteriorated? Ukrainians and Russians belong to the same civilization and the same ethnic group. We are one people that was shared in 1991 between the two States, the political changes managed. But relations between the people of these two countries, for the overwhelming majority of the population, have remained as they were throughout the history of Russia from the Soviet Union and the new Russia. Adapted from the source document.

In three months, the Ukrainians have taken a major shift in their country. Following protests ending in violent clashes, they chased the ex-president Viktor Yanukovych from power. They thus stated their desire to move closer to the European Union rather than Russia, consolidating their independence and asserting their willingness to break with the corruption and the remains of the Soviet past. Adapted from the source document.

A new episode in the natural gas war, which pitted Russia against Ukraine last winter, affected all of Europe. Several countries had to fall back on measures such as rationing their industries or even burning wood for heating. Of course, after twenty days of crisis, an agreement was found and gas supplies to Europe were resumed -- but there is no reason they can't be blocked again. The truth is that the EU is paying the price for having no common energy policy. Each country thinks only of its own short-term interests. And when a new project is planned, it only increases this dependence. Such is the case with the Nord Stream and South Stream pipelines, which will soon link Russia directly to Europe without having to pass through Ukraine. And yet there has been no progress on the Nabucco pipeline project, which would supply Europe with gas from Central Asia while bypassing Russia. If the EU doesn't want its bargaining power with the Kremlin to be weakened even further, it must act quickly. Adapted from the source document.