January, 2020 – February, 2020
The journal “Foreign Affairs” published an analytical article on the Budapest Memorandum by HURI Prof. Serhii Plokhy
The January/February 2020 issue of the influential journal "Foreign Affairs" featured an analytical article by Serhii Plokhy, the M. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. The article, which was co-authored by Dr. Maria Sarotte, a researcher at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, focused on the Budapest Memorandum. December 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of this document. In their article, the authors underscored the fact that the Budapest Memorandum, unfortunately, was not a security guarantee, and noted that if Ukraine had received not simply "security assurances" but genuine security guarantees, then Russia would not have dared to violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
