Power, National Unity, and Territorial Integrity: the Cases of Russia's Chechnya and Ukraine's Crimea
Journal: European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Year: 2015

Perhaps, in the age of globalization, the concepts of national unity and territorial integrity sound to many of us like obsolete terms, although they are still important to international law. But, no matter whether they remain essential or worthless they are equally applicable to both Russia and Ukraine. This paper discusses Russia's stern approach to strangle the freedom aspirations in Chechnya to preserve its own territorial integrity, while avidly pushing Crimean Russians to separating from U