title: OLD OR NEW COLD WAR? IS THE NEW COLD WAR A CONTINUATION OF THE OLD?
abstract: The launch of perestroika and in particular the collapse of the Soviet Union, which, shortly before, was still characterized by US President Ronald Reagan as the "Evil Empire", gave the public in the West the impression that the Cold War had definitively ended.After Russia's occupation of the Crimea and its subsequent annexation, Washington and Brussels imposed certain economic sanctions on Russia. Later, when Russia started supporting the separatists in south-eastern Ukraine through unofficial 