Assessing the factors that marked dramatic changes of the security situation in the Eastern European region for last 10 years, two thirds of respondents – 68.8 per cent - considered that the annexation of Crimea by Russia was the primary one (several answers were allowed). Among other main factors experts also mentioned: the war in Georgia in 2008 (56.3 per cent); the unleashed by Russia war on Donbas (37.5 per cent); Putin’s speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2007 (31.3 per cent); unclear EU policy to the East (25 per cent); separation of Kosovo (18.8 per cent); refusal to give MAP to Ukraine and Georgia at the NATO Bucharest Summit in 2008 (18.8 per cent). This means that changes in the Eastern European region were provoked by violation of the international law and order by Russia. For more details see the EXPERT SURVEY.