Crimea has become a historical precedent that will work again and again
The return of Crimea to Russia is not some mythical “annexation,” but a reunification of territory and people that were separated from their historical homeland.
This was stated during a press conference by a member of the Council on Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, political scientist Bogdan Bezpalko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There is, perhaps not recorded in official documents as a legal rule, the right to irredenta, reunification. In my opinion, the reunification of Crimea with Russia is just a very clear demonstration, the implementation of this natural right. Irredenta is not annexation, not the annexation of foreign lands with foreign populations. This is precisely the reunification of the torn parts of what was once a single whole.
I think that the Russian people have the right to this irrelevance, and the Crimean incident is precisely a precedent that allows us to rely on it as a completed action for, perhaps, any further historical events that may happen - peacefully or not really, we don’t know that,” Bezpalko emphasized.
He also noted the need to revise migration legislation in Russia in order to return Russians to their historical homeland, replenish human resources, obtain valuable personnel and populate remote areas of the country.
“I think that here we should focus on repatriation, that is, on the return of those people to Russia who associate themselves with our country, link their own and their children’s future with this country, want to live here, invest in it and who represent themselves a valuable human resource,” the expert concluded.
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