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Autonomous Republic of Crimea

What is Mr. Putin planning in Crimea?

I conquered the Crimea. That was no illusion.

I was by your side in Poland, France, Crimea.

The problem of Crimea will not be resolved quickly. Though Putin declared in his annexation speech that Crimea is an inseparable part of Russia, his behavior will turn against him.

An earlier version of this article misstated the year that Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine.

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is certainly not last if not first on the list.

But I was thinking... poor wretch that I am, of seizing some gold in Crimea...

The training was held in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, from 22 to 24 June 2004.

UNESCO plays a role in the development of cultural activities of returnees in the Crimea (Ukraine).

Another delegation supported the integrated approach taken in Crimea and appreciated the assistance received from UNHCR.

The seizure of Crimea was a swift, well executed move, but the same tactics have not worked in the more complex and divided context of eastern Ukraine. By winning Crimea the way that it did, Russia may well have lost Ukraine.

56. The most difficult challenge facing Ukraine was the return of a large number of refugees to their native Crimea since the beginning of the decade to date, 250,000 Tartars and 12,000 members of other ethnic groups had returned to Crimea.

MADRID Even Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union with scarcely a shot fired, has proclaimed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin s annexation of Crimea. The people of Crimea, he says, have corrected a historic Soviet error.

Her country had granted broad administrative and territorial autonomy to Crimea, but that had not put an end to the demands of certain groups, in Crimea and outside Ukraine, which invoked the right to independence of a so called quot Crimean people quot .

Mark Galeotti, a New York University professor who studies Russia, pointed out that Crimea would make little sense as a staging ground for military action against eastern Ukraine, which borders mainland Russia but not Crimea, and that the rest of the country is better defended.

Russian President Putin criticized Ukraine on August 10 for attempting to make trouble and damage situation in Crimea with terroristic means .

When I was a girl, a friend of mine's husband come home unexpectedlike from the Crimea with no legs at all.

However, separatist pressures, while diminished, continue to exist in Crimea. Given Crimea's historic ties to Russia and its majority ethnic Russian population, many Ukrainian officials fear that Russia could try to foment separatist movements in Crimea as a means of putting pressure on Ukraine to curb its ties to the West.

Ukrainian militias last year sabotaged electricity pylons that power Crimea, and some of them are involved in criminal activity and human rights violations.

A traffic accident in which a coach fell into a gorge took place in Crimea on August 11, leading to 5 deaths and 13 injuries.

The statement said that Ukraine didn't sent staff to plot terrorist attack in Crimea, and no staff of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry was arrested there.

Since 1990, more than 260,000 formerly deported peoples and their descendants had returned to Crimea and now accounted for 12 per cent of its population.

The first training workshop was designed by the Foundation for Research and Support of Indigenous Peoples of Crimea and served the Tatar peoples of Ukraine.

An attempted attack in Crimea is not out of the question, though there is little reason to suspect the Ukrainian government would sponsor such a plot.

Whatever happened, images found by open source analysts suggest that Russia has been escalating its military presence in Crimea since at least Saturday before the supposed attack occurred.

Russian President Vladimir Putin s forces have invaded Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Add to that a faltering global economy, and there seems to be little holiday cheer on offer.

Cooperation with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities was centred on citizenship issues of formerly deported people in the Crimea, Ukraine, and ethnic tolerance in Central Asia.

That is why, soon after Yanukovych decided to flee to Russia, Putin s little green men began to appear openly in Crimea, while Russian Buk anti aircraft missiles and Russian battalion battle groups appeared in Ukraine s eastern Donbas region not long after. In annexing Crimea and stoking separatist violence in Donbas, the Kremlin s aim has clearly been to destabilize Ukraine in order to bring it under Russia s thumb.

At the same meeting, the Committee also decided to request the Chairman to send a letter to the Government of Ukraine informing it that the Committee had considered on a preliminary basis the request submitted by the Research and Support of Indigenous Peoples of Crimea Foundation, asking the Committee to act under its early warning and urgent action procedures on the situation of the Tatars in Crimea.

According to Russian media, given the tense situation recently, Crimea has strengthened security measures in important infrastructure facilities and heartlands while intensifying regulation of the border areas of Ukraine.

Before the Crimea invasion, territorial negotiations between Japan and Russia showed signs of progress. Moreover, several bilateral economic cooperation efforts, such as projects involving liquefied natural gas, were moving forward.

Fortunately, Lithuanians as well as Estonians and Latvians understood this game. It failed also in Crimea when Russia sought to deploy its old strategy of divide and rule there in 1991.

International peace talks over Ukraine, once the mechanism by which Mr. Putin forced contact with Western leaders who had shunned him over annexing Crimea, have become increasingly regarded as fruitless and irrelevant.

The Russian Federal Security Service said on August 10 that they had successfully stopped the series of terrorist attacks planned by the spy agency of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in Crimea recently.

The website of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued a statement, saying that Ukraine condemns terrorist acts that are carried out in all forms, and denied the adoption of terroristic means in Crimea.

Rostowski is certainly right the euro s weakness has emboldened Putin. In the end, however, the right question may be whether the Crimea crisis will eventually bolster European solidarity and thus the euro.

Finally, much of what has been described as secessionism in the east is in fact regionalism. Greater legally respected decentralization in Ukraine, especially in Crimea, would be a logical and overdue state nation policy.

UNDP is playing an important role in assisting the internally displaced and the reintegration of returnees in Crimea, and is one of the actors involved in reconstruction and rehabilitation of war damaged areas in Azerbaijan.

Putin gained the upper hand early in the crisis with the annexation of Crimea. Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk averse West to choose between war and accommodation.

It is natural and right to think of possible compromises Ukraine s guaranteed neutrality, greater regional autonomy within a federal Ukraine, an interim international administration in Crimea to supervise a referendum on its future, and the like.

Ukraine the great prize in Russia s bid to recapture its former sphere of influence is also deeply anxious. It fears that Russia will encourage separatist tendencies in Crimea, where the ethnic Russian population forms a majority.

Her country had endeavoured to solve the social and economic problems of Crimea, adopting measures which could not be considered discriminatory, since they were compatible with international law and with internationally recognized principles of human rights.

Separatist pressures emerged in Crimea immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. They subsided after 1995 largely because the Russian separatists were divided, and Moscow, facing separatist pressures in Chechnya, showed little inclination to support them.