Domestic Politics in Crimea, 2009-2015
Journal: Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
Year: 2016

Considering the international impacts of the Crimean Crisis, the academic community's almost complete ignorance of Crimea's domestic politics during the last several years seems strange. After Crimea's separatism in the early and middle 1990s declined,1 researchers ceased paying serious attention to its domestic politics. For example, The Crimea: Europe's Next Flashpoint? by Taras Kuzio, published in November 2010, carefully analyzed the Kharkiv agreement between Ukraine and Russia (which extend