The 2014 Crimean Crisis: Collective Self-Determination, Territorial Integrity, and Legitimacy under International Law
Journal: Open Journal of Political Science
Year: 2024

A growing variety of critical analyses of unlawful offenses and acts of imperialism against ethnic minorities and their territories have been made possible by evolving requirements for democracy. One of these acts is the sequence of events that took place in early 2014: the military invasion, the referendum, and finally, the annexation of Crimea on February 20, 2014—one of the major acts of hostility in Ukrainian-Russian relations. The annexation raised the questions: To what extent was the Russ