Il labile confine fra secessione eterodiretta e annessione: il caso della Crimea
Journal: Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Year: 2014

This Paper provides a brief oveview of the crisis about territorial integrity of Ukraine and aims to analyze the merits of the appeal to the principle of selfdetermination of people made by Crimean and Russian authorities in support of their actions of March 2014 which have resulted in the Russian annexation of the crimean peninsula. The contribution debates the relationship between referenda and selfdetermination in the context of international and constitutional law and finally figures out tha