Bocharnikov I.V. Ukrainian Dusk of Europe

Abstract: Based on the analysis of events that lead to World War I and modern events that are linked to the realization of anti-Russian policy of the leading European countries as a result of the situation in Ukraine, this article reaches a conclusion that this is the dusk of Europe as an independent subject of global politics. The author substantiates the main grounds for calling European political elites biased and controlled by United States of America, and formulates projections of possible consequences of Europe’s anti-Russian political and economic course. The methodology of this research is based on systemic, structural- functional, comparative-historical and comparative-political approaches, the methods of induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, observation, analogy. The events of World War I, its 100-th anniversary being commemorated rather modestly in most participant countries, and the developments in modern international political processes, within and around Ukraine, in particular, give grounds to Hegel’s postulate of all world’s tragedies being repeated twice — first time as a tragedy, the second, as a farce.

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