scholarly journals Political and Legal Aspects of the Reintegration of the Crimea into the Russian Federation: Between Legality and Legitimacy

Author(s):  
A. V. Brega

This article discusses the ongoing controversy in the scientific and political community concerning the legality of Russia’s actions on the rejoining of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The author considers the main points of view on the legality of Russia’s actions. At the same time, special attention is paid to the interaction of legal and political aspects that determine the legitimacy of the events analysed in the article. The results of the study showed that further work with the international community to recognise the Crimea as Russian territory should use a broader context of legitimisation (historical, legal, political, socio-cultural, linguistic), and not only rational and legitimate.

Author(s):  
Ksenia Kornilova

Today in the scientific community and among the practicing experts in the field of tourism there are not enough research findings, which would reveal specifics of tourism development on the Crimean peninsula, potential prospects and approaches to current problems of tourist services for the Russian Federation residents. The article considers different types of tourism in the Republic of Crimea from 2014 to 2017 after its joining the Russian Federation. Having analyzed historical, economic, geographical and other specific features of the region as well as statistical data the author reveals peculiarities of tourism development in the Crimea and Sevastopol, describes opportunities to promote tourist services. The article states problems and prospects of tourism business in the region in the context of territory branding as an important component of territory marketing. The article concludes that it is necessary to develop cultural and informative tourism in the Crimea and to implement a systematic program-oriented approach to organizing exhibition activities in larger cities of the peninsula as well as in the region in general.


2021 ◽  
pp. 86-93
Author(s):  
Boris Petrunok

This article is dedicated to the study of identity markers in the context of politically motivated persecution by the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula. The occupational administration, following a set political course, basically builds a generalized „Other‟ that is being persecuted. They also create their own identity markers that further prove the longevity and legitimacy of the temporary occupation of Ukraine's territory. Cases of human rights violations, harassment of national and religious communities in the occupied Crimea are actively documented and investigated by non-governmental human rights organizations: Crimean Human Rights Group, Crimea SOS, Regional Center for Human Rights, Crimean Tatar Resource Center and a number of others. In the article proposed a comprehensive approach to the analysis of collective identity Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian. Author examined the main components of collective identity Crimean Tatars at the present stage. Considered the main challenges faced by the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian community in connection with the occupation of the Crimea. Today we can talk about a specific list of elements indicating the ethnocide and linguicide agenda, political and religious persecution in the Crimean Peninsula. Furthermore, the so-called „general threat‟ is too blurry and undefined for the Russian Federation based on the gathered material throughout the years of occupation. The occupant cannot classify and define the risks that they face and that compromise the illegal occupation and attempt to annex a part of Ukrainian territory. So, they target all the self-organized active communities that are not controlled by the occupational government. Whether these communities have an agenda, national, cultural, or religious differences is an important factor, but it is not in priority. The Russian occupational regime understands its weakness on the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimean Peninsula, so it utilizes the logic and traditions of other authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. However, it will lead to the collapse of the dictatorship.


2020 ◽  
Vol XIV ◽  
pp. 0-1
Author(s):  
Patryk Reśkiewicz

The purpose of the following article is to present the military capabilities of the Russian Federation located on the Crimean peninsula, and to define in this context Russian A2/AD anti-access capabilities and their impact on the security architecture of the Black Sea region, in particular NATO's south-eastern flank


2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155
Author(s):  
Edgaras Klivis

After the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation in 2014, the attitude of Baltic theatre producers and artists towards cultural and institutional partnerships with Russian theatres and their involvement in the mutual artistic exchanges, tours, common projects, and networking changed; not only due to these exchanges becoming a controversial issue in the public eye, but also due to the polarization they caused in the artistic community itself. Some artists, like Latvian stage director Alvis Hermanis, have decisively terminated all their previous creative partnerships, arrangements and tours, calling also other theatre artists “to take sides”. Others, like Russian stage and film director Kirill Serebrennikov who, for years, had been involved with Baltic theatres, would regard taking sides as a disastrous yielding of culture to the logic of war – theatre should be kept as the last link between societies gradually separated by reciprocal propaganda insanity. Building upon these conflicts describing the changes in intercultural theatrical cooperation between Russian and Baltic theatres, the article focuses on the analysis of three productions: Dreams of Rainis by Kirill Serebrennikov at the Latvian National Theatre (2015), Alexander Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov directed by Eimuntas Nekrošius at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (2015) and Brodsky/Baryshnikov staged by Alvis Hermanis at the New Riga Theatre in 2016. All of the performances refused to stay inside the frameworks marked for them by the regimes of propaganda wars, public diplomacy, or dispositif of security, but focused instead on the possibilities of intellectual disobedience.


2020 ◽  
pp. 40-64
Author(s):  
I. S. Sarkina

The article is the first summary on the macromycetes of the “Baydarsky” State Natural Landscape Reserve. The annotated list of macromycetes of the reserve includes 201 species of macromycetes from 97 genera, 45 families, 13 orders. The species composition of families Boletaceae (26 species), Russulaceae (22), Tricholomataceae (19), Agaricaceae (15) and Amanitaceae (12), genera Lactarius (14), Amanita (11), Tricholoma (9), Russula (8), Cortinarius and Ramaria (6 species each), Agaricus and Hygrophorus (5 species each) is found out most fully completed; the number of Boletales mushrooms in the volume of Boletus s. l. is 26 species. For the registered in the reserve 9 species, this is the first find in the Crimean Peninsula, and for 45 species this is the same one in the Sevastopol region. In the Red Book of the Russian Federation included 7 species, the Red Book of the Republic of the Crimea - 14, and the Red Book of the city of Sevastopol - 16.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-63

The article is dedicated to the activities of the Mobile diagnostic group (MDG) of the Federal State Budgetary Establishment «27 Scientific Centre» of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. It provides the information about the MDG`s structure and tasks. In particular, the article describes the personnel`s actions in planning and conducting NBC reconnaissance operations at the territory of the Kuril Islands chain and the Crimean Peninsula, as well as in the examination of objects, where large numbers of people and VIPs might be expected, for the presence of toxic substances and sources of ionizing radiation. The information, necessary for the prediction of the situation in the area of ​​ security measures, has been received. The article shows that the experience, gained by the MDG experts since the moment of the group`s formation, allows them to carry out their tasks successfully in the context of growth and constant changes in modern NBC challenges and threats


Author(s):  
Pavlo ARTYMYSHYN

The main visions of the political, media, and expert circles in Ukraine concerning the conclusion of the Kharkiv Agreements in 2010 – the pact between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the stay of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Navy on the territory of Ukraine are determined. It is alleged that circles close to the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, saw them as a sign of the beginning of an era of intense Ukrainian-Russian relations, including the issue of cheaper gas, which would help to overcome the crisis in the economy and provide a lower price for gas for both industrial and household consumers. Instead, the agreements in the opposition were seen as a betrayal of Ukrainian national interests, the creation in the Black Sea region of a destabilizing center in the form of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, and the beginning of Ukraine’s integration into the Russian geopolitical space. At the same time, the Ukrainian side was unable to persuade the Russian to sign new gas agreements to revise the price of «blue fuel» in essence, rather than through a discount system. Opposition criticism was also not effective under these circumstances: although the topic of prolongation of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol became one of the tenets of their anti-government rhetoric, however, the unification of the opposition had not yet grown into an institutionalized movement, acquiring such features only on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 2012. Instead, the Russian side took full advantage of the Ukrainian concessions of 2010. It is the preservation of the Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean Peninsula that allowed the Russians to prepare the ground for its annexation and for the nourishment of the Russian chauvinist ideology about Sevastopol as a «Russian city». Keywords: Kharkiv Agreements of 2010, politicum, mass media, expert environment, visions, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Navy, gas, Ukraine, Russian Federation.


Author(s):  
N.P. Demchenko ◽  
N.Yu. Polyakova

The situation in the ecology of the Crimean Peninsula in recent years was discussed in the article. The analysis of absolute and integrated indicators of the anthropogenic impact showed that the ecological situation remains difficult, and according to some indicators even continues to deteriorate. In summer 2018, the situation had worsened because of the large chemical release of titanium dioxide on the north of the Crimea from the holding pond of a large Russian plant that is situated near the town of Armyansk. This, in turn, led to the contamination of the large territory on the north of the peninsula. This fact indicates insufficient control by officials of the Republic of Crimea over the implementation of the RF laws for environmental protection by business owners of various forms of ownership, especially private ownership, the level of responsibility for the environment of which is very low.


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