title: CONCEPTS OF REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (ХХ–ХХІ CENTURY)
abstract: At the current stage, there is no doubt about the role of the "Three Seas" initiative in the regional schedule. However, it is worth noting that one of the impetuses for its actualization was the world confrontation that arose after Russia's encroachments on the territory of Ukraine (the annexation of Crimea and the instigation of the war in the East of Ukraine). Today, this idea of unification of states in the space from the Baltic to the Black and Adriatic seas, as it was at its inception, is 
journal: КОНСЕНСУС