In a speech held in Strasbourg on 23 October, EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, referred to the Black Sea as “a European sea.” Russia’s state-controlled RIA Novosti found her statement so controversial that...
This week, Moscow historian Arkady Popov completes his demolition of what he calls the eight myths of the KrymNash Crimea Is Our movement with an essay in “Yezhednevny zhurnal” about the claims of the backers of that trend that the...
The seventh “Krymnash” CrimeaIsOurs myth, one suggesting that Russia has not engaged in aggression in Crimea and the Donbas but rather responded in a “morally justified” way to the years of “humiliating acts committed by the...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov continues his examination of the eight myths propagated by Russia’s “Krymnash” “CrimeaIsOurs“ notions with a devastating demolition of Russian claims that the Maidan in Ukraine was...
The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial integrity because it is not a real state” is the fifth myth of “Krymnashism,” one that has deep roots but that is even...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov has been systematically examining and demolishing the eight myths Vladimir Putin and his regime have put forward in justification of the Russian Anschluss of Crime. In “Yezhednevny zhurnal,” he takes on...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov takes up and demolishes the third myth that the Kremlin has promoted as part of its “Crimea is Ours” campaign – the notion that the people of Crimea freely expressed their will regarding the annexation...
“Krymnash” Crimea is Ours arose as a serious meme in March 2014, an expression of the patriotic pleasure Russians felt in taking Crimea and demonstrating the power of their country. But since then, it has become an ironic...
The fight for its creation was not easy. President Petro Poroshenko, the author of Ukraine’s judicial reform, resisted the idea till the very last moment. The pressure of society and Ukraine’s western partners made him change his mind....
