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May 28, 2024 · Russian opposition to increasing Western influence in Europe is evidenced by its war over Georgia and then subsequently when it annexed Crimea in 2014. The Crimean annexation by Russia was in clear violation of the principles of contemporary international law.
13 hours ago · Appeasing Russia by accepting, as a condition for peace talks, its annexation of any Ukrainian territory would only serve to reward its murderous “special military operation” and invite ...
13 hours ago · The West refused to recognize this annexation. Both the United States and the EU imposed sanctions on the culprits, Crimea, and relevant enterprises, but that was it. Putin and his neo-imperialists cheered. On April 17, 2014, Putin made his most aggressive speech ever, calling for half of Ukraine, “New Russia,” to become Russian territory.
13 hours ago · Russo-Circassian War. Part of the Caucasian War and Russian imperialism. Date. 28 July [ O.S. 17 July] 1763 [7] – 2 June [ O.S. 21 May] 1864 (100 years, 10 months, 6 days) (Disorganized Circassian resistance continued in the mountains until the 1880's) Location. Circassia.
2 hours ago · Since the annexation of Crimea and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, support for Kyiv has been a cross-party consensus issue in Lithuanian politics. Immediately after his first inauguration in 2019, Nauseda took an unexpected step, making his first official visit not to Brussels to shore up European Union relations, as his ...
5 hours ago · May 27, 2024 07:35 GMT. By RFE/RL's Georgian Service. 0:00 1:03. On Georgia's Independence Day, thousands of demonstrators called on the ruling Georgian Dream party to withdraw the controversial ...
13 hours ago · I made this decision after the annexation of Crimea. I don’t think that wars of invasion should be allowed in modern Europe. Yet, I’ve visited Russia, and even the Soviet Union, many times. My relatives were working at the Finnish embassies in Russia, which led me and my mother to visit the Soviet Union two times, when I was just a kid.
