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Remember Crimea? A Year Later
In March 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea
temporarily topped Western news. It epitomized the end of what many in
the West had believed was the agreed international legal framework of
the post–Cold War era.One year later, the issue is all but forgotten. The invasion marked only one step in the dramatic escalation of the crisis in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan antigovernment protests and led to Crimea’s annexation, war in the eastern Donbas region, and a standoff between the West and Russia. In a bizarre twist of events, the war, which to date has claimed over 6,000 casualties and internally displaced over 1 million people, quickly overshadowed the de facto redrawing of Ukraine’s borders.
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