Monitoring Desk On March 18, 2014, allegedly as a result of the so-called “Crimean status referendum” (on March 16, 2014), Russia forcibly illegally seized the Crimean Peninsula, located within the Ukrainian administrative units, and illegally included it in the Russian Federation on the rights of subjects of the federation – “the Republic of Crimea”. Neither … Continue reading Russian Troops in the Occupied Ukrainian Crimea — a Threat to the Entire Western Community