International law and the ‘Crimean conundrum’: legal issues arising from the 2014 Russia/Ukraine crisis / Zoom Out
The non-recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea: three different legal approaches and one unanswered question
1. Introduction Crimea’s referendum for self-determination and Russia’s ensuing annexation completed on 21 March with the signature by President Vladimir Putin of two ad-hoc federal laws (the Federal Constitutional Law On Admitting to the Russian Federation the Republic of Crimea and Establishing within the Russian Federation the New Constituent Entities of the Republic of Crimea...