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Abstract In this article author analyzes the influence of the Russian-Georgian crisis of August 2008 on the security and energy situation in the Black Sea region. The main threats and risks due to the Russian-Georgian crisis 2008 in the Black Sea region may be considered as activation of the situation in the separatist regions of Moldova and Azerbaijan, security of the transport routes, pipelines, energy resources supply from the Caspian basin. For Ukraine – complication of the relations with Russian Federation, aggravation of the Black Sea Fleet status problem, possibility to use South Ossetia Scenario in the Crimea, difficulties for the realization of the “White Stream” Project. Author also considers positions of the third parties in particularly the EU, Turkey, Armenia, Belarus and other CIS states and how the conflict touches their interests and relations with parties to conflict. Events of August 2008 demonstrated which mechanisms the Russian Federation is ready to use to prevent post-soviet states from the Euroatlantic integration. And the same time the conflict has demonstrated how six days crisis in such interconnected and important region as the Wider Black Sea can influence and impact not only on the regional players and neighbors but on the common European security and stability.

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