Крим як Храмова гора
Journal: Electronic Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Institutional Repository (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Year: 2016

‘Crimea as Temple Mount’ is a new discourse articulated by Russian President Putin as an ideological&#13;\ncover for the Crimea annexation (2014) which is set as prolonging of ‘the Crimea myth’. The mentioned&#13;\nmyth is represented through ‘Legendary Sevastopol’ during the Soviet times and ‘the Crimea is ours’&#13;\nnowadays. The compensatory discourse set after the tragic Crimean war (1853–1856) as sublimation of the&#13;\nposttraumatic mentality determined with a bunch of military and polit