Expert Opinion (#05 May 2016)

Determining the Legal Status of Crimea after Annexation by Russia

Oleksandr M. Biryukоv

The occupation of Crimea had already begun by late February 2014, practically in the last days of the Revolution of Dignity. By 2 March 2014, unidentified Russian military troops without insignia, widely known in the Western press as “the little green men,” surrounded the Supreme Soviet of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea of Ukraine. At one of its first sessions, and in violation of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Parliament of Crimea appointed Sergey Aksyonov the Prime Minister. On 11 March 2014, the Supreme Soviet of Crimea adopted a Declaration of Independence and set a date for a local referendum on the status of Crimea. The participants in the 16 March 2014 referendum voted to proclaim a new state, the Republic of Crimea, and then to join the Russian Federation...

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