The Crimea Crisis from an International Law Perspective
Journal: Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal
Year: 2016

In February and March 2014, Ukraine was literally overrun by a chain of events that eventually led to Crimea’s incorporation into Russian territory. Crimean and Russian authorities jointly used the internal conflict in Ukraine to deprive the Ukrainian government of its control over Crimea, to hold a so-called referendum, and to declare Crimea’s independence. On the day after independence was declared, Russia formally recognized Crimea as an independent state,[1] and the Crimean parliament reques