nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170215-121316 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 140402s2014||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.17176/20170215-121316 doi ger 342 23 Tatarenko, Anastasiia Author aut The Legal Status and Modern History of Crimean Autonomy Tatarenko, Anastasiia Verfassungsblog 2014-04-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Over the past weeks, much has been said about the Republic of Crimea’s secession/annexation to the Russian Federation and on its illegality (see on this blog here) and I personally agree with these statements. At the same time, I believe that the Crimean problem is much more complex at its roots and that some of Crimea’s history and its struggle for independence in the past have been overlooked in most of the recent discussion. I will provide some historical overview of the Crimean struggle for independence. It will dispel the widespread myth that Crimea for centuries had been part of Russia and was “gifted” to Ukraine and illustrate that yet another annexation of Crimea by Russia does not solve the Crimean problem.Over the past weeks, much has been said about the Republic of Crimea’s secession/annexation to the Russian Federation and on its illegality, and I personally agree with these statements. At the same time, I believe that the Crimean problem is much more complex at its roots and that some of Crimea’s history and its struggle for independence in the past have been overlooked in most of the recent discussion. I will provide some historical overview of the Crimean struggle for independence. It will dispel the widespread myth that Crimea for centuries had been part of Russia and was “gifted” to Ukraine and illustrate that yet another annexation of Crimea by Russia does not solve the Crimean problem. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-legal-status-and-modern-history-of-crimean-autonomy/ raw object