Debates still erupt in Ukraine on whether the post-Euromaidan government made the right decision to restrain from military conflict in Crimea: as we all know, the military conflict in Ukraine started in Donbas, not from the Russian...
The countries guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity have simply deceived us, as Great Britain and France deceived Czechoslovakia 80 years ago. Why? First, they did not wish to disturb the aggressor, and secondly,...
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later as its supporters hoped because Joseph Stalin violated his own understanding and annexed the Baltic countries, western Ukraine, western Belarus and...
The photos of the leaflets were reportedly posted to Crimean forums. As twitter user wasily_crimea noted, the user who originally posted the photos is now unavailable, being supposedly blocked. However, photos of the leaflets had by that...
Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014 weeks after the Euromaidan revolution which overthrew the pro-Russian then-President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. Though, the Russian military operation started when Yanukovych had...
Five years ago, the meeting of the UN Security Council, during which Vitaliy Churkin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations cynically dismissed widespread international condemnation, became a symbol of the collapse of...
Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who happen to live on the Russian-occupied peninsula and thus do not have the legitimate right to a separate national self-determination, an...
US leaders like their EU counterparts since Vladimir Putin invaded and then annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 have repeatedly declared that their countries will never recognize the incorporation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and...
Moscow media outlets are celebrating Google’s decision to show Crimea as part of Russia, even though it will continue to show it was part of Ukraine everywhere else, as a first step toward international recognition of the Russian...
The concept of “human shields” in international law International humanitarian law prohibits the use of civilians for military purposes. The use of “human shields,” when warring sides use unarmed civilians as a living barrier...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
