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In the past several years, there have been many occurrences of conflict between different nations, about their nationality and being stripped of their own birth place. The United States has a tendency to associate themselves in the center of these foreign affairs. The United States, in order to maintain good economic relations and their super power status, feels the need to always get involved and provide support for the country they believe is receiving unjust treatment. Recently, Vladmir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, took over the formerly Russian region of Crimea. The Crimean people voted in a referendum to separate from Ukraine and for Russia to annex

Just recently a known political activist, Vedzhie Kashka, abruptly died after meeting with Russian Security forces. She collapsed during the meeting then died shortly after it was over. Since she was from Crimea Stalin banned her as well as many other Crimeans from Russia when the Soviet Union was in power. When Putin annexed Crimea she spoke out for her people, she was known as “a legendary woman of the Crimean Tatar national movement”. She worked with many people to advocate and improve the rights and civil liberties of displaced persons. Earlier in the month and before her meeting she heavily scrutinized the Russian government for the persecution of the Tartar minority. Russia has perpetually tried to put end end to Tatar Crimeans and “Silence the Peninsula” of Crimea.

The US’s global influence and power place a broad range of intervention tools at its disposal. Even though tensions between Russia and Ukraine are lower than they were a couple of years ago, the impact of the US is visible. First, in the form of economic and political sanctions against Russia (Daiss, 2016). These penalties have proved costly to Russia and in some way have deterred further Russian aggression.

On February 27 of 2014, masked Russian troops without insignia infiltrated in south Ukraine and captured strategic sites across Crimea, a rugged peninsula that strategically juts in the Black Sea. Within a few days Crimea was under Russian control and by July 2015 Crimea was formally integrated into Russia. The whole episode drew international consternation against Russia, which resulted in successive rounds of economic sanctions. A few days after the annexation, Ms. Clinton likened the move to the actions of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (Rucker, 2014), a sentiment that was quickly adopted by the media; for example, on March 2, 2014 Bloomberg published an article entitled, “In Ukraine, Echoes of the Anschluss” (Bershidsky, 2014) and a few days later, on March 7, 2014, BBC published an article entitled, “Crimea seen as ‘Hitler-style’ land grab” (Kralova, 2014). This is a very grave accusation and, given that the USA and Russia collectively hold 90% of all nuclear weapons, prudence is in order.

The roaring anti-Americanism proclaimed by Russian leaders and reflected on government-controlled television has provoked an ugly point with shameless capture of Crimea. Putin has made clear that he doesn’t care about international norms and

Millions of citizens in Crimea have been left in the dark and have to depend on candles and back up generators. The blackout was executed by the Tatar a far right Ukrainian nationalist group in Crimea who were against the annexation. The situation has become so bad that authorities have stopped trade with Crimea until they have the situation under control. Russia reaction to the blackout is it’s threatening to cut gas and coal supply to

In March, Russia annexed Crimea by a referendum with an unrealistic 97% in favor, claiming that they were protecting ethnic Russians. This Russian move was criticized by the international community since Russia was violating its promise. In foreign policy, countries priorities are in order from security, economy, autonomy, environment, identity and then prestige. Russia knew by annexing Crimea, it would ensure the safety of Crimea’s ethnic Russians. However, Russia needs Crimea for potential long term economic gains and better security in the Black Sea. Russia is also being suspected of supplying weapons to separatist held territories through dubious aid trucks. Again, Russia is supplying so called aid in the name of protecting ethnic Russians, though it is clear he has other economic and security reasons in

    I am aware that on February 27, armed men from Russia seized your government buildings and Russian military men put Russian flags everywhere on barricades while disrupting innocent people’s homes. Crimeans protested these acts and shouted, “Ukraine is not Russia”, even though you are no longer part of Ukraine. Russia is trying to take over Ukraine by gaining

In 1944, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine. Almost instantly, nearly all of the local the Crimean Tatars, Muslim Turkic people, were brutally murdered by the Red Army. Those who were not killed, were rounded up and deported to the brutal conditions of the Siberian forest. Over 40 percent of the Turkic people died enroute. Fast forward to modern day, Reshat Ametov, a Crimean Tatar, from the Simferopol region of Crimea, disappeared in March of 2014. Ametov was last seen during a protest in the center of Simferopol, where three unidentified men, presumably Russian forces, in military-style clothing, led him away. Ametov is one of the many examples of how Crimean citizens have been forced to endure unjust hardships from Kremlin takeover of Crimea. The Kremlin has violently attacked a sovereign nation and continuously violated basic human rights. However, as Russia continuous to viciously violate nearly every human right, the rest of the world just sits as watches. Better yet, most people do not even know that Russia is murdering innocent Crimeans. Though the US has introduced a few sanctions, political and economic tools that work to force

The years following the collapse of the Soviet Union have been marked with constant conflict as Russia attempts to regain its footing on the world stage. Within the past decade alone, Russia has managed to annex Crimea from the Ukraine, defeat the Chechens and Georgians, and supports the Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria. Furthermore, Its current leader Vladimir Putin, has managed to maintain power over Russia for over seventeen years. With this in mind, Russia's leadership have constantly expressed an unwillingness to cooperate with other western powers, which has resulted in Economic sanctions and the breakout of cyber warfare. The current situation seems to be deteriorating as Russia

Russia’s economy is largely based on the production of oil, natural gas and metals like steel and aluminum. Swings in global prices on these exported goods make the economy vulnerable to boom and bust cycles. Although Russia underwent a 2-year recession from 2014 to 2016, the global growth and trade started to strengthen at the end of 2016 and the economy showed signs of overcoming the recession caused by the shocks of low oil prices and economic sanctions. The economy is mostly based on a market-based system after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a high concentration of wealth in officials’ hands due to a mostly privatized industry with notable exceptions in the energy, transportation, banking, and defense-related sectors.

Firstly, we all need to be clear on what sanctions regimes are and how they are set out. Financial and Trade Sanctions are part of a package of measures applied by individual countries, International Organisations or Regional Bodies to fight aggression, terrorism, criminal behaviour or violations of human rights. These Sanctions measures are intended to

However, today “these relations can at best be described as bleak, and at worst headed for outright confrontation.” From Russian point of view, two factors could be critical for worsening of the relationship, especially if considered together. The first is decision to build NATO Ballistic Missile Defense System in Eastern Europe and second is “color revolution” as well as Ukraine wish to join the NATO and European Union. Two additional historical facts shape the West and Russia relationships. The first is “Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” signed in 1994 thru which Ukraine lost all nuclear weapons. The second is “Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet” signed 1997 for period of 20 years thru which Russia and Ukraine partitioned Soviet Black Sea Fleet, and regulated the stationing of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation on the Territory of Ukraine. In 2008, Ukrainian leadership announced the termination of agreements from the year 2017.

By losing Ukraine to its independence, Russia lost thousands of armed forces and military equipment; this coupled with the effect the separation had on Russia’s trade agreements with Europe meant that Russia was left weak, and economically unstable. It was one of the biggest partitioned nations in the world. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December of 1991, Russia was left in a fragile state, especially after getting accustomed to being treated as a world superpower; its’ sphere of influence significantly declined. Russians see this as a time of economic and political instability leaving them vulnerable to the West (Larrabee, 2010), one of its biggest reservations being the potential for a Western stronghold along its international border. Because of its weakened state, much of Russia’s distress towards Western policies was noticeably dismissed.

Under international law Russia’s invasion of the Crimean Peninsula is illegal as the Referendum held on the 16th of March by Russia infringed upon the