Zelmanovych I. Political mechanisms of frozen conflicts regulation of the present.

The thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of the study of the phenomenon of «frozen» conflicts, reveals the main causes of their occurrence, as well as searches for mechanisms and means of their political settlement. The main focus of the work is on the study of the Trans-Dniester, Abkhaz-Ossetian, Nagorno-Karabakh, Kosovo and Cyprus «frozen» conflicts. It is noted that along with the complicated internal ethno-political contradictions that have been forming within these regions for a long time and eventually led to an armed confrontation, there is also an external factor, which directly affects the process of resolving each of these conflicts. The paper analyzes the methods and possible ways of resolving the Russo-Ukrainian armed conflict. Particular attention in this context is paid to the “Croatian experience” of the liberation of the occupied regions, and the study of the activities of the international peacekeeping mission in the areas of confrontation is of particular interest. It has been proved that the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine led not only to the occupation of the Crimea and part of the territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but also attested a crisis and institutional weakness that manifests itself both in the politics of certain European countries and among the Western international structures and organizations.