This issue  is the 10th since the resumption of its publication in the summer of 2017 and the 38th since its founding in 2005 in Sevastopol by the Nomos Center.

We are glad to present to your attention new issue of the Black Sea Security Journal 1 (37) 2020 in English. 

Editorial Board of the Black Sea Security Journal is pleased to announce that a Ukrainian version of new issue No. 4(36) 2019 is available online.

This issue of the journal closes 2019 and opens 2020. Predictions are numerous as always. Not all of them will be true. Some of them can come true later, not in 2020. However, there are predictions, which need to be talked about loudly to prevent them from ever being realized.

Editorial Board of the Black Sea Security Journal is pleased to announce that a Ukrainian version of new issue No. 3(35) 2019 is available online. 

In this issue of the journal, our authors from Romania, Italy, Georgia, Moldova, in their articles, have reflected the threatening dynamics and trends of the security environment in the Black Sea region as well as in the adjacent regions of the Caspian, Eastern Mediterranean, and the Balkans, where Russia is demonstrating its dominance and opposing NATO.

The outlines of a new geopolitical game between the US and Russia have emerged. Russia's attempt to penetrate the "soft subsoil" of the United States through Venezuela is now turning to Moscow for an American-Greek alliance to curb Russian and Turkish ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea.

The sixth year of Russian aggression against Ukraine continues. Crimean peninsula, Sevastopol, part of the Lugansk region and the Donetsk region - 7% of the country remain occupied. The Putin project "Novorossiia" collapsed, but the Surkov's hybrid war technology continues to be used by the Russian Federation. "The Civil War in Ukraine" - another of the stamps of Russian propaganda continues to be exploited, despite thousands of evidences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. According to the Kremlin's plan, the change of power in Kyiv gives Russia the opportunity to revive the project of Ukraine's Anschluss.

This year first issue of the Black Sea Security Magazine is devoted to the 5th Anniversary of the Russian occupation of Crimea. It is important not only to not forget that was going on in Crimea, but to give a proper assessment of these events. 

In this issue, we provide an analysis of the events preceding the invasion, their course, what could have been done, what was not done and what can we expect.

This time Editorial board engaged well-known Ukrainian and foreign experts to the analysis of the Crimean episode of the Putin wars and today's actions of Russia in the Black Sea and Azov region. 

The Editorial board is glad to announce publication of the Ukrainian version of the Black Sea Security No 2 (32). 

The key topic of October issue is usage of civil marine gas infrastructure in the Black Sea by Russia.  The authors of the article had come to the conclusion that the existing pipeline Nord Stream and potential pipleines Nord Stream 2 and the TurkStream could be used as a long-range playgrounds for hidden placing of the technical devices for Signals Intelligence against NATO in the Black and Baltic Seas. 

Dear readers, 

We are glad to present to your attention the fisrt issue of the Blask Sea Security 1 (31) in 2018. In the spotlight of our attention rests non-military dimension of Russian aggression against Ukraine, Europe and the whole civilized world. Its informatinal component, which the Kremlin uses, trying to form new paradigms of the world's order,  is of great importance. Detailed analysis helps to find vulnarabilities of aggressor and enhance protection.