Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the creation of "operational headquarters for the fight against terrorism" in Simferopol (Crimea) and in several sea regions of Russia. The corresponding decree on Saturday, December 26, was published on the official portal of legal information of the Russian Federation. According to the document, the headquarters will be ...
A Moscow court sentenced three activists detained after a pro-Ukrainian action on a skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment to ten days of administrative arrest. The activists were found guilty of disobeying a lawful order from a police officer. On Monday, a group of five people hung the Ukrainian flag on the scaffolding ...
The crisis in Ukraine has become the largest battleground in cyberspace since Russia's cyber attacks on Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. Russia has managed to collapse almost all government websites in Ukraine, and has also managed to take control of all Internet and telephone lines ...
The annexation of Crimea by Russia dealt a crushing blow not only to the international legal order, but also to constitutionalism and the idea of the rule of law in Russia itself, consolidating there, in fact, an anti-law state in which the central place belongs not to the law, but to the will of the country's leader. ...
On March 27, 2014, a significant event took place, which can be called a diplomatic victory of civilized states supporting international law and order over the Russian aggressor: delegates to the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution confirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and thus condemning the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Among other things in ...
Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea have raised the question of the reasons for the extraordinary aggressiveness of Russia's foreign policy, which makes Russia itself a very dangerous phenomenon in world politics that threatens the entire civilized world. The question regarding the reasons for Russia's aggressive behavior can be formulated ...
In connection with the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Russian politicians and diplomats tried to present the right of peoples to self-determination in a rather awkward way as the main argument justifying this annexation. Let's try to understand this rather complicated international law even for modern science, an issue that has ...