ГЕОПОЛІТИЧНІ ІМПЕРСЬКІ ІНТЕРЕСИ РОСІЇ – ЗАГРОЗА НЕЗАЛЕЖНОСТІ Й ДЕРЖАВНОМУ СУВЕРЕНІТЕТУ НАРОДІВ І КРАЇН СХІДНОЇ ЄВРОПИ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ УГОРЩИНИ Й УКРАЇНИ)

The article carries out a comparative analysis of events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, on the one hand, and the Revolution of Dignity, the annexation of the Crimea, the war of occupation being waged by the Russian Federation in the east of modern Ukraine, on the other hand. The author stresses that in both cases the imperial states, in the mid-twentieth century – USSR, in the early twenty-first century – The Russian Federation, demonstrate an example of interfering in the internal governance of the other State, with the broad involvement of secret services and military units.