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Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea

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  2019/11/24 - 11:14 • Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  More Crimea-like annexations are possible, Moscow scholar says

  Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, one of the most important questions has been whether or not Moscow might repeat that scenario and absorb another territory of a neighboring state. At a conference in Yalta last week, Valentina Goydenko,...

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  2019/11/02 - 11:22 • Crimea, Op-ed

  46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their...

  Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights abuses in Crimea is to end the Russian occupation, called on the international community to continue to press for that end, and...

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  2019/10/25 - 11:40 • Crimea, Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea

  Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea and that it has promoted demographic change there in violation of the Geneva Convention. But Ukrainian experts are...

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  2019/03/11 - 12:17 • Crimea, Op-ed

  It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says

  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...

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  2019/03/02 - 12:04 • Crimea, Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Conflict over Crimea between two peoples, not just two states, Portnikov says

  When the history of the 21st century is written, Vitaly Portnikov says, Russia’s occupation of Crimea “beyond any doubt will be among the most important,” not because of the Ukrainian peninsula itself but because of two other factors...

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  2019/02/16 - 12:37 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says

  Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the Anschluss considered themselves more Russian than even those in Moscow, voted for pro-Russian parties and in 2014 welcomed the annexation by Russia. But in the years since, Andrey...

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  2018/12/09 - 12:18 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Russians will celebrate return of Crimea to Ukraine if Putin tells them...

  The possibility that Vladimir Putin will return two or more of the Kurile Islands the Soviet Union seized at the end of World War II in exchange for a peace treaty with Japan has an important lesson for the world about Crimea: Russians...

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  2018/11/15 - 22:06 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Seven messages from Mustafa Dzhemilev on his 75th Birthday

  Mustafa Dzhemilev, who has been fighting for the rights of the Crimean Tatar nation for six decades against occupiers old and new, turns 75 today. He has lost none of his ability to diagnose the problems his nation faces or to inspire its...

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  2018/10/19 - 11:03 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Russians moving into occupied Crimea now form one-fifth of its population

  Since the Russian occupation of Crimea began four years ago, the combination of its longtime residents being forced to leave and new people from Russia arriving means that 20 percent of the population consists of people who did not earlier...

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  2018/10/01 - 11:35 • More, Russian Aggression

  Putin didn’t annex Crimea to boost his ratings, Portnikov says

  Many commentators are suggesting that Vladimir Putin may seek “a new Crimea” to salvage his ratings with the Russian people, but Vitaly Portnikov says that he “doesn’t think that anyone in the Kremlin was thinking about ratings...

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