PARIS, March 31 – The base-case scenario for the further relations between Russia, Ukraine and their international partners will be a trend for a gradual de-escalation of the crisis, according to Standard & Poor's.

S&P said that there is a large likelihood that all conflict issues will be settled.

Under this scenario, Russia's GPD growth will moderately slow in 2014, to 1.2%, and in 2015 it will gaudily improve to 2.2%, S&P said.