From “a crisis” to “the effective control”: the problem of qualification of the Russian invasion in Ukrainian and international law in 2014-2022
Journal: The Warsaw East Law Review
Year: 2025

The author studies the problem of legal qualification of Russian invasion to Ukraine in the context of the core quasi-legal Russian official thesis on the “self-determination of peoples of Ukraine”. He shows that this thesis, characteristic of Russian legislation, diplomacy, and propaganda, is a carefully crafted intellectual construct, based on the systematic falsification of the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe and ethno-political concepts, the skillful manipulation of complex and not ful