The Crisis Management of Russian Federation in Ukraine Problem

Russia has tried to conceptualize its buffer zone as near abroad in post-Soviet era. Ukraine has am important position among the countries of this region because of numerous cultural and historical affinities. Therefore the security and political issues of this scope are important for Russian Federation. In 2013, Ukraine has faced to an erosive crisis and this issue has incited Russia to harsh reaction in order to manage the crisis automatically and immediately. The article intends to answer this question that how and by which tools and technics, Russia has managed the Ukraine crisis. The hypothesis is that based on Russia approach to international crisis management, crisis occurrence in near abroad usually followed by Russian military reaction. The results indicates that due to the geo-economics, geostrategic and geopolitical importance of Ukraine, Russia mange the Ukraine crisis by using hardware tools collection including military invasion of Crimea, dispatching army troops to the east of Ukraine, delivery loads of super heavy war equipment to oppositions and supplementary software tools such as holding political-diplomatic meetings, imposing energy sanction against European competitors and adopting advertising actions.