Comments by "Vladimir Bogorad" (@vlbogorad) on "Putin Issues Chilling Warning To U.S. Over Crimea Strikes; ‘Will Not Go Unpunished…’ | Watch" video.

  1. There is a way out of the impasse in Crimea, if bias is discarded. Crimea should belong to both countries. Crimea has never been part of an independent Russian state as it exists today. Crimea belonged to the people inhabiting Russia and Ukraine, when these territories were part of the USSR, and when they were part of the Russian Empire. The current state border between Ukraine and Crimea is the same injustice as if such a border were between Russia and Crimea. In international law, there is the concept of condominium (condominium) - an entity over which two states exercise sovereignty and possession. For example, Pheasant Island, owned by France and Spain, under the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, after the Thirty Years' War. Russia cannot afford to be in international isolation for thirty years. It must move towards a compromise. The whole world sees that Crimea was not rightfully annexed, and this curse cannot hang over Russia forever. Firstly, Crimea was annexed on the basis of an illegal referendum in one region. In the Constitution of every country, including Russia and Ukraine, it is written that the separation of any territory is possible only by popular vote. The whole country. Otherwise, if each region could choose the country to which it would like to join, not a single state would have survived. Ask Putin, if tomorrow they vote on Sakhalin to surrender to Japan, will they let him go? The way he let go of Chechnya. .Secondly, Crimea was annexed in violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which Russia signed and under which it pledged to respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for renunciation of nuclear weapons. In Russia, lackeys on all channels repeat that Russia should not comply with this document, because it has not been ratified by Russia. Lies. The absence of ratification does not exempt Russia from fulfilling its obligations. Article 15 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On International Treaties" dated July 15, 1995 states that ratification is required if it is provided for by the international treaty itself. However, the Budapest Memorandum, according to its text, does not require ratification. On the contrary, at the end of this document it is clearly stated that it comes into force immediately after signing.
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