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Angela Hunt, BA, MA, MIR, MCIL

Fee £100.00 (concession rate £80.00) - fee will amend when you select the appropriate fee rate below.

Autumn 2025

10 weekly sessions on Wednesdays 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm, starting 24 September

In February 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves across Europe, prompting EU member states to stand united and take unprecedented political and financial measures to constrain the Kremlin.As the war in Ukraine continues unabated, many questions remain regarding the rationale behind President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine—a conflict that effectively began with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the successor states' bilateral relations have undergone periods of ties, tensions, and outright hostility.Relations between Russia and Ukraine became hostile after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, which was followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, and the war in Donbas, in which Russia backed the separatist fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic.This course will analyse the roots of Ukrainian Russian relations dating back to the formation of the Russian State. Kiev, the capital of modern Ukraine, was proclaimed the mother of Rus Cities, as it was the capital of the powerful late medieval state of Rus.

This class will take place on QUB campus

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