Russia, Ukraine & the World: Current Events

International politics that people can imagine include diplomacy. This is the subject of this article and is the focus of current events around Eastern Europe. It will focus on Russia, Ukraine and the world and analyze it with resources available in the classroom. After all, it is an international political curriculum, and one of the best ways to effectively use skills and knowledge is to focus on events or current events. This article tries to confirm what is happening in time series and what is happening in Ukraine.

The status of the Crimea and Sevastopol city is currently controversial between Russia and Ukraine; Ukraine and most international communities believe that Crimea is the autonomous republic of Ukraine and Sevastopol is a special position in Ukraine I will. Russia, on the other hand, believes that the Crimea is a federally responsible body of Russia and Sevastopol, and has become one of the three federal cities of Russia since the annexation of the Crimea in March 2014. Since 1991, Russia also leases a naval base of Sevastopol, but the current lease term is extended to 2040 and can be extended further, but on March 31, 2014 State Duma had 433 We approved members to withdraw from lease. I accept.

In March 2014, Russia annexed the majority of the Ukrainian part of the Crimea Peninsula and governed the territory as two federal agencies, the Crimean Peninsula and the federal city Sebastopol. Russia opposed this view as a merger and believes that it is the Russian Federation that it joins the country that just declared independence from Ukraine after the referendum and the split is due to the unconditional result. A term often used by Russia to explain these events is "reunification" (воссоединение) to emphasize that the Crimea is part of the Russian Empire and later Russia's SSR.

In Ukraine and Russia, the Communist Party ranked second in 2002 and 2003 elections respectively. The party is still strong in Russia, but in Ukraine, its 32 members were lost in Ukraine, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and the Russian Federation merged Ukraine parliamentary elections in 2014, the Ukrainian Communist Party I do not have a representative.

Let's see Russia and Ukraine. Let's see the whole Ukraine, not Eastern Ukraine. East Ukraine's population is mainly Russian. In the former Soviet Union, the border between the republics was very nominal. People can move around, this is not a big problem. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the border between Russia and Ukraine was respected, but still people can move around. No special visa is necessary. Looking at the Russians who were born and raised in the Kursk and Belgorod across the border with the Russian side say that Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk of Ukraine are almost impossible. They read the same newspaper, Pravda saw the same television, said the same language not even an accent. But somehow, in 2014, after President Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula and invaded eastern Ukraine, we saw a big difference.