title: The Price of Freedom: the Conflict in Ukraine and its Geopolitical Consequences
abstract: The article analyzes the peculiarities of the conflict in Ukraine, its preconditions and geopolitical consequences. It provides the examples and numbers, which show the low level of trust to government institutions, law enforcement agencies, judicial system and a much higher level of trust to non-governmental organizations. It covers the issue of democracy condition or, to be more precise, the lack of democracy, which causes the society’s tendency to protest. It is stated that the public’s disco
journal: Wschód Europy Studia humanistyczno-społeczne