... Putin had signed with Crimean leaders an agreement later ratified by the Council of the Federation and then the Russian Duma. This vote opened the path for the return of Crimea, a Russophile province with a majority of Russian-speaking people[4], under Russia’s sovereignty, and appears as a particular chapter of the Ukrainian crisis.
Crimea and Sebastopol’s annexation fundamentally overthrows the strategic balance of the Black Sea, allowing Russia to solve at virtually no military cost[5] a set of security issues inherited from the strategic context born from collapse of the ...
Russia’s March 2014 annexation of Crimea has overthrown the maritime context in the Black Sea region. The full sovereignty recovered by Moscow over the Crimean peninsula is likely to tremendously sustain Russia’s maritime power in the region and beyond, in the Mediterranean[1]. ...
... rhetoric in the media, signing a new gas agreement and paying for the necessary algorithms to achieve dialogue in the context of Crimea’s entry into Russia will make it possible, albeit in the long term, to get out of the crisis of trust and relationship. It’s no accident ... ... Moscow’s foreign policy line, are pointing to the importance and necessity of multilateral dialogue.
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Chronicles of the Ukrainian crisis
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It is only possible to implement dialogue scenarios of this kind, however, if official Washington ...
... summer of 2014 fundamentally changed Russia’s view of the plan to resolve the Ukrainian crisis proposed on 17 March 2014
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. The main points of the plan are:... ... referendum;
To establish the neutral military and political status of Ukraine;
To make Russian the second state language, and granting other minority languages the status... ... simultaneously hold elections for all national and regional authorities;
To recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation;
To get a guarantee from the European Union...
Part Two:
What are the consequences for the buildup of the Black Sea Fleet?
Having examined the plans for the economic development of Crimea and the construction of infrastructures in the peninsula in our previous paper, we now raise issues related to the impact of Russia’s seizure of Crimea for the modernization of the Black Sea Fleet. The buildup of the Black Sea Fleet ‘1.0’ was initiated years before Russia’s takeover of Crimea which has recast Moscow’s paradigm in the whole Black ...
Part One:
Economic Development: First Steps, First Challenges
Russia’s annexation of Crimea on March 18, 2014 has raised issues related to the economic impact of such a move for Moscow. The takeover of the peninsula as well as Moscow’s involvement in the Ukrainian crisis have sparked economic sanctions from the Euro-Atlantic community. On the diplomatic stage, Western countries ...
Ankara
’s spotlight on Crimea events is defined by the numerous Tatar community on the peninsula and Black Sea interests
On March 25, RIAC hosted a roundtable on Russian-Turkish relations held in partnership with RAS Institute for Oriental Studies and Turkish Global Relations Forum.
The event was attended by RIAC President Igor Ivanov, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov ...
