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On 27 March 2014, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution describing the referendum leading to annexation of Crimea by Russia as illegal. [437] The draft resolution, which was titled "Territorial integrity of Ukraine", was co-sponsored by Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and the US.
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation: Referendum on the political status of Crimea: 18 March: Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation: Putin and Crimean officials signed the Treaty on Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia. 26 October: 2011 time zones reform was canceled 2015: 1 January
In February 2014, following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that ousted the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian leadership decided to "start working on returning Crimea to Russia" [14] (i.e. envisaged the annexation of the peninsula), and after a takeover of Crimea by Russian armed forces without insignias and pro-Russian separatists, the territory within weeks came under Russian ...
The annexation brought an end to the Crimean slave trade, [34] [35] and marked the beginning of Russian-imposed de-Tatarisation of Crimea. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following his appointment as governor of the region, Prince Potemkin moved to expropriate Tatar land and assign it to Russian nobles, sparking another wave of Tatar emigration. [ 33 ]
On 27 February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1] This military occupation, which the Ukrainian government considers to have begun on 20 February, [2] [3] laid the foundation for the Russian annexation of Crimea on 18 March 2014.
On the 55th anniversary of the transfer of the Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR (on 19 February 2009) some 300 to 500 people took part in rallies to protest against the transfer. [38] Map of modern Crimea. On 24 August 2009, anti-Ukrainian demonstrations were held in Crimea by ethnic Russian residents.
By the time of the 2014 Russian annexation, Crimea had been part of Ukraine for 60 years. Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, said Kyiv had invested some $100 billion into ...
English: Map of Russia including internationally-unrecognized illegally-annexed Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation, with Crimea in red. Русский: Карта Республики Крым на карте России, 2022