The oblast conducted a referendum in 1991, which asked whether Crimea should be elevated into a signatory of the New Union Treaty (that is, become a union republic on its own). In 1990, the Soviet of the Crimean Oblast proposed the restoration of the Crimean ASSR. In 1989, under Gorbachev's perestroika, the Supreme Soviet declared that the deportation of the Crimean Tatars under Stalin had been illegal and the mostly Muslim ethnic group was allowed to return to Crimea. In 1954, the Crimean Oblast was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia. Moscow joined the RSFSR with three other republics to form the Soviet Union the following year.Īfter the Second World War and the subsequent deportation of all of the indigenous Crimean Tatars by the Soviet regime, the Crimean ASSR was stripped of its autonomy in 1946 and downgraded to the status of an oblast of the Russian SFSR. In October 1921, the Bolshevik Russian SFSR gained control of the peninsula and instituted the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. They were followed by White Russian governments ( General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia and later South Russian Government).
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After the end of the empire in the first stages of the Russian Civil War there were a series of short-lived independent governments ( Crimean People's Republic, Crimean Regional Government, Crimean SSR). Ĭrimea was part of the Crimean Khanate from 1441 until it was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783. The Russian government opposes the "annexation" label, with Putin defending the referendum as complying with the principle of the self-determination of peoples. The United Nations General Assembly also rejected the referendum and annexation, adopting a resolution affirming the "territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders", and referring to the Russian action as a "temporary occupation". The annexation led to the other members of the then- G8 suspending Russia from the group and introducing sanctions.
Ukraine and many other countries condemned the annexation and consider it to be a violation of international law and Russian agreements safeguarding the territorial integrity of Ukraine. įollowing the annexation, Russia escalated its military presence on the peninsula and made threats to solidify the new status quo on the ground. Russia formally incorporated Crimea on 18 March 2014. Although Russia initially claimed their military was not involved in the events, Putin later admitted that troops were deployed to "stand behind Crimea's self-defence forces".
On 27 February, Russian troops captured strategic sites across Crimea, followed by the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea, the Crimean status referendum, and the declaration of Crimea's independence on 16 March 2014. At the same time Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed Ukrainian events with security service chiefs remarking that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia". The events in Kyiv that ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych on 22 February 2014 sparked pro-Russian demonstrations as of 23 February against the incoming new Ukrainian government. This event took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and is part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula, taking it from Ukraine.
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