Law, Rhetoric, Strategy: Russia and Self-Determination Before and After Crimea
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2015

(Excerpt) On March 16, 2014 the residents of Crimea woke up in Ukraine, as they had every morning since the dissolution of the USSR at the end of 1991. That evening they went to sleep in what claimed to be the independent Republic of Crimea. They lived in that putative country for the next day. On March 18, the leaders of Crimea signed a treaty merging their day-old country into Russia. Much had taken place before these three days in March 2014. There were arguments about Ukraine associating wit