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Following the protests hold in November 2013 and the chaos in Ukraine after Russia placed troops in Crimea, the situation accelerated and turned into a huge crisis. In March 2014, international society was shocked and reacted that Crimea and Sivastapol had declared their autonomy in a referendum and had bounded to Russia. Despite the fact that the international actors made decisions about enforcement and applications, Russia has never taken step back from its policy. In this article, EU-Russia relations in political economy has been researched in context of Ukraine crisis while it has been analyzed how economic dependency influences government’s foreign policy. It is determined at the end of this study that EU-Russian relation is unavoidable despite of all negative facts because of the reciprocative economic dependancy particularly energy. Keywords: EU-Russia Relations, Ukraine Crisis, Political Economy, Energy Policy, Sanctions

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