The Precedence of Crimea and Its Compliance with Public International Law: Legal Analysis of the Applicability of the Remedial Right to Secession and Other Principles of Public International Law
Journal: Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Year: 2016

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union new independent countries emerged, but at the same time their independence brought them new challenges. Russians living in former USSR republics became national minorities in the new independent Post-Soviet states.1 Two recent breakaway regions – South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2008 and Crimea in 2014 demonstrate that the right to self-determination as well as the concept of responsibility to protect (hereinafter – R2P) are not clearly established in contem