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Crimea and the law of power

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Duncan Cameron
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Photo: KoFahu/flickr

The hasty referendum organized by the self-proclaimed government of Crimea, which had seized power two weeks earlier, had the expected result -- an overwhelming vote by Crimea to make the Black Sea peninsula, home to two million people, part of the Russian Federation.

An interim Crimean government backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrated the consultation about the future of what had been, since 1954, a part of Ukraine.

Russian military presence in the autonomous Ukrainian territory ordained the vote would not be democratic. Two weeks prior to voting day, Russian military stationed in the Ukraine had left barracks and surrounded Ukrainian military bases.

The crisis in Crimea is part of a larger story: the break-up of the Soviet Union, and the failure of the international community to come to terms with a post-Communist world.

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