Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security
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russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was the most brazen act of territorial aggrandizement the world had seen in decades. President Vladimir Putin justified it on the basis of Russia’s imperial tie to the region. “Literally everything in Crimea,” Putin claimed, “is suffused with our common history and pride,” from the adoption of Orthodox Christianity by Grand Prince Vladimir of Kyiv in 988 to the Crimean War and the “Great Patriotic War” of 1941–45. Of course, Putin’s reading of history was selective, and competing narratives, whether of the Turkic Crimean Khanate that dominated the peninsula until the eighteenth century or of post-Soviet Ukraine’s legitimate sovereignty, hardly figured into it. Nonetheless, anticipating objections that Russian control would come at the expense of Crimea’s inhabitants, Putin pointed to the long history of coexistence among “various peoples’ cultures and traditions” within Russia, where “not a single ethnicity disappeared or dissolved in the course of centuries.”1
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