... Nikolay Danilveski already described the Black Sea as a “natural maritime fortress[25]” in the heart of which lies Crimea. Since 1991, Moscow considers that the Pontic strategic context has negatively evolved: Bulgaria and Romania have become ... ... instability, especially coming from Syria, tend to spread to the Caucasus[26]. From the Kremlin’s perspective, the current Ukrainian crisis is a new attempt by the Euro-Atlantic community, after the 2004 Orange revolution, to expand its influence to Ukraine regardless of the Russian interests. The chronical instability on Russia’s southern flank, whether it comes from political tensions with the ...
... context, linking the issues of lifting reciprocal sanctions with the decentralisation of Ukraine while maintaining its territorial integrity and non-aligned status, abandoning... ... 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... ... pointing to the importance and necessity of multilateral dialogue.
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Chronicles of the Ukrainian crisis
(in russian)
It is only possible to implement dialogue scenarios of...
... 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:... ... be adopted by 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...
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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’ ... ... of the Black Sea Fleet signed on May 28, 1997, the treaty on status and terms of deployment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine (May 28, 1997), the treaty on mutual settlements related with division and stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine ...
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 ... ... 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... ... Crimea, one of the most Russophile and Russian-speaking parts of then newly independent Ukraine.
Soon after the annexation, President Putin created the Ministry for the Development...
