Sovereignty, Security and Intervention in Central Asia
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2015

Russia's dispute with Ukraine in 2013–2014 signalled a new approach toward the former Soviet republics and, more importantly, a fundamentally different position on international norms. Russian military intervention in Ukraine's south-eastern region and the annexation of Crimea violated solemn pledges to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity and economic independence (in the 1994 Budapest accords and the 1999 OSCE Charter for European Security), and called into question Moscow's professed respe