The Situation Of Ukraine As A Crisis

While chaos continued to spread across the country, Russia began to eye the territory of Crimea, one if Ukraine’s most southwestern territories and an area that used to belong to Russia until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. By the end of February, masked Russian troops without insignias took over the Supreme Council of Crimea and several strategic sites across Crimea. This event led to the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea and the declaration of Crimea 's independence. This spurred the Ukraine’s provisional government to request an emergency meeting with the U.N. Security Council in which they called on Russia to stop all military action in Crimea. By Mach 1st, Russia’s parliament approves President Putin 's request to use force

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, most post-Soviet satellite states began making the transition to become liberal democracies. However, the transition from communist governments to democratic governments was not necessarily a smooth one for most of the Eastern European countries. Decades of oppressive Soviet rule and deep-rooted communist parties made ties to the Soviet Union especially hard to cut. Ukraine, in particular, struggled mightily to break away from the Russian communists, and that struggle is still continuing today. In the form of a corrupt government and pro-Russian supporters in South and Eastern Ukraine, roadblocks were created on the Ukrainian road to democracy that they are still trying to maneuver.

Since then, the peninsula has been administered as two Russian federal subjects- the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, which, until 2016, were grouped in the Crimean Federal District. The annexation was brought by a military intervention by Russia in Crimea, which took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine. On February 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted an all-night meeting with security services chiefs to discuss elimination of the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and at the end of that meeting Putin had stated that, "We must start working on returning Crimea to Russia." On February 23, 2014, pro-Russian acts were held in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. On February 27 masked Russian troops without markings took over the Supreme Council of Crimea, and captured strategic sites across Crimea, which led to the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea, and making the Crimean status and the declaration of Crimea's independence on March 16, 2014. Then, only two days later, Russia claimed

The crisis started with Crimea, when soldiers began to take control of strategic positions in the Ukrainian territory. Russia then annexed the small territory, while Putin denied Russian military involvement. He finally admitted that the military had been active in Crimea and had laid the groundwork for what is known as the Crimean Status Referendum. While a ceasefire has been enacted, in the final hours before it occurred, Putin sent what United States State Department called “large amounts” of arms, including tanks, missiles and rocket launchers, to pro-Russia rebels battling the Ukraine government in Crimea and other parts of Eastern

The two countries, Russia and Ukraine, had different reactions towards the armed violence and impeachment of the Ukrainian president. Although the majority of the Ukrainians opposed Viktor’s decision to procrastinate the signing the EU-Ukraine integration agreement, all the ex-presidents accused for its interference with the affairs of Crimean. The former presidents of Ukraine, including Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma described the present crisis as Russia’s political interventions designed to interfere with the internal affairs of Ukraine and its relationship with the European Union (Hanschke 1). The people of Crimea have not been seeking for secession from Ukraine, but their interest is to have extended autonomy and rights to govern the Crimean affairs with minimum involvement of the government of Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, have dismissed the accusation and stated that it is pursuing the interest of the people of Crimea to join the Federation of Russia. Russia holds that the people of Crimea have the power to decide the future of their territory and Russia will be ready to respect their decision. Study shows that about 90

The Crimea Peninsula, located between Kherson of Ukraine and Kuban of Russia, is a major land mass almost completely surrounded by the Black Sea, providing it an extremely important geopolitical position in Eastern Europe. Because of its special geopolitical position, Crimea always has strategic significance to Russia. In history, Crimea was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1783 and, following the Russian Revolution of 1917, became a republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the USSR. It became the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within newly independent Ukraine in 1991. As a result of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Russia annexed Crimea through a combination of military occupation and democratic procedure, leading to a serious crisis in international relation. The crisis has caused the most serious tension between Russia and the Western World since the end of Cold War and brought profound and lasting influence to international society. A deep understanding of Crimea Crisis is an

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s recent accession to Russia are events that clearly highlight the underlying sources of conflict in global politics. While Russia sees its actions in Crimea as a “reunification” and the respect for the right of self-determination, the West views it as a threat to European security and a violation of territorial integrity. Crimea has been a debatable topic from the time it came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great. The justification then was similar to the reasoning being used by Vladimir Putin today. Catherine declared that she was protecting ethnic Russians in the region from the Ottoman Empire, much as Putin is claiming to protect Russians from Ukrainian

To understand the conflict, which is being dubbed as the biggest crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War, one must first grasp the political and historical background present in the Crimea region. While the Crimean region has a long history spanning back to 6th century B.C., only the events since medieval times is relevant to current issues, furthermore the most recent histories pose most significance. Two years ago, Russia began its annexation of Crimea, which belonged to Ukraine, after the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted from the Ukrainian presidential office. The people of Crimea were outraged; they had voted heavily in favor of him and following his removal they thought Yanukovych had been made a victim of a coup. In response, president

The conflict between the Ukraine and Russia is the Ukraine's most long-standing and deadly crisis; since its post-Soviet independence began as a protest against the government dropping plans to forge closer trade ties with the European Union. The conflict between Russia and the Ukraine stems from more than twenty years of weak governance, the government’s inability to promote a coherent executive branch policy, an economy dominated by oligarchs and rife with corruption, heavy reliance on Russia, and distinct differences between Ukraine's population from both Eastern and Western regions in terms of linguistics, religion and ethnicity (Lucas 2009).

In early 2014, Russia made the decision to conduct an illegal military intervention into Ukraine. It all began when there was a dispute over whether Ukraine should accept financial help from Russia or Europe, which then ascended into the ousting of the Ukrainian president and then invasion of Ukraine. More specifically, Russia began to taking over the Ukraine territory of the Crimean Peninsula through illegal use of force (Global Security, 2016). During that time, the Russian government voted to place Crimean’s into the Russian Federation, which had been rapidly accepted by the President of Russia himself, Vladimir Putin. Most of the Crimean population is ethnic Russians, although there are also the pro-Ukraine Tatar minorities that make

On August 7th 2014, Russia imposed a ban of food imports coming from western countries for the next year. The reason for Russia’s decision to ban the good comes on the heels of Russian invasion of neighbor Ukraine. In early 2014, Russia staged an intervention with Ukraine expressing that the land described as the Crimean Peninsula was under Russian control, not Ukraine’s. On February 21st 2014, the Ukrainian President fled the capital and was officially removed him from power. Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed interim President the next day. The day after Turchynov was appointed, pro-Russian protests were held in Sevastopol, Crimea. Three days later, on February 26th, Russian forces entered the region and established themselves in

The average workers in Ukraine are most likely in the labor market in agriculture, pharmaceutics, FMCG, and industries such as chemicals and more. The unemployment rate in Ukraine is 8%, which has increased, compared to the last couple of years. Their working conditions are very similar to the United States. Holidays for them are 24 calendar days of annual vacation plus addition vacation days and the payroll taxes start at 36.7% to 49.7%. Ukraine payroll payouts twice every month and the minimum salary is strictly regulated by the government. Employee benefits are insurance, car, fitness, and more, also the normal working hours are 8 hours per day. Healthcare in Ukraine is weak because the lack of medical facilities and medicines. Healthcare is supposedly free and all employed citizens contribute to the healthcare system. After some research it was found that monthly the average person makes about 3189 UAH, which would equal to 269 US dollars. Ukraine’s GDP in 2013 was 337.4 billion US dollars according to the CIA. Ukraine’s working conditions for the average worker seems to be highly repressed. They rank number 155 in economic freedom by country. Benefits for the public are the same as the United States. Education is free and kids start at age 6 and go through 12 years of education before post-education. They also have public welfare to the people, which do not have, pension entitlements and disables people.

Ukraine is a country situated in Eastern Europe. Towards the east and northeast of Ukraine is the Russian Federation. Towards the northwest, the border of Ukraine is formed by Belarus, meanwhile on the western border are situated Poland and Hungary and the southwestern border is formed by Romania and Moldova. Water bodies including Sea of Azov and the Black Sea also border Ukraine on the southeastern and southern sides, respectively. The total area of the country is found to be 603,628 square kilometers. This makes Ukraine the second largest contiguous country situated in the European continent, the first largest being the Russian Federation.

The political relations between Ukraine and Russia as the two independent subjects of international relations were established in 1991 after the eighth December of the same year signed the Belavezha agreement between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, which marked the end of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as " subject of international law and geopolitical reality "and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. From that moment we can talk about the beginning of the existence of full political relations between Russia and Ukraine.

There has been a range of international reactions to the crisis. The U.N. General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution 100 in favor, 11 against and 58 abstentions in the 193-nation assembly that declared invalid Crimea's Moscow-backed referendum.