THE IMPACT OF THE CRIMEAN AND DONBASS CONSENSUSES ON THE ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR OF RUSSIAN VOTERS
Journal: Open MIND
Year: 2026

The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that in the context of dynamically changing foreign and domestic political situations, there is a need to study new factors that influence the attitude of citizens to the actions of political actors and decisions taken. One of these factors is the consolidation of Russian society, caused by the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation in 2014 (the Crimean consensus) and four historical regions (the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regi