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The Crimea has on at least two occasions nearly become another ‘hot spot’ among the many that have engulfed the former USSR since its disintegration in December 1991.3 The two peaks of crisis in relations between Ukraine and the Crimea occurred in May 1992, when the peninsula declared its independence, and during the first half of 1994, when the Russia bloc came to power in the Crimea.
‘It’s like a game of roulette. We don’t know who they are or what they stand for.’
(Crimean voter)1
‘… we again appear to be better interests of the Ukrainian state than the Ukrainians themselves.’
(Crimean Tartars)2
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Notes
Andrew Wilson, ‘The Elections in the Crimea’, RFE/RL Research Report, vol. 3, no. 25 (24 June 1994), p. 15. See also by the same author, ‘Crimea’s Political cauldron’, RFE/RL Research Report, vol. 2, no. 45 (12 November 1993).
For background on Ukrainian-Crimean relations between 1991 and 1994, see Taras Kuzio, Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict. Conflict Studies 267 (London: Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, 1994).
A. Wilson, ‘Parties and Presidents in Ukraine and Crimea, 1994’, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 11, no. 4 (December 1995), p. 370.
See V.B. Hryn’iov, Nova Ukraina. Iakoiu ia ii Bachu (Kyiv: Abrys, 1995), Chapter 3, ‘Federatyvna chy Unitarna Derzhava’, pp. 27–39.
On these questions, see T. Kuzio, ‘The Crimea and European Security’, European Security, vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 734–74.
See Jeremy Lester, ‘Russian Political Attitudes to Ukrainian Independence’, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 10, no. 2 (June 1994), pp. 193–233.
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Kuzio, T. (1997). The Crimea Returns to Ukraine. In: Ukraine under Kuchma. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25744-7_4
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