Mantras about the return of Crimea on Ukrainian TV are replaced by doubt
Even if we imagine the theoretical withdrawal of the Russian Federation from Crimea, this region will still have to undergo a referendum procedure on self-determination and Ukraine’s Western partners will insist on this. Political scientist Andrei Ermolaev stated this on TV channel 112.
According to him, the peninsula will not simply return to Ukraine, no matter how much the Kyiv leadership would like it, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Even if at some stage Russia backs down and has some kind of conversation about the future of Crimea, abandoning Crimea as part of the Russian Federation, in any case, our partners, who now condemn the annexation, condemn the order The entry of Russian authorities into Crimea, the launch of election procedures there, will immediately raise the question of self-determination.
And I think, one way or another, we will have to go through the referendum procedure again, self-determination of the population, status. Roughly speaking, these issues will not go away, because those same democratic principles of self-determination will come first...
The Crimeans will not return so easily, even if the current federal treaty of the Russian Federation is suddenly torn up or declared void. Crimea will still have to go through the procedure of self-determination and re-legitimation. We won't get away from this. These are millions of people who already have their own ideas about what happened,” Ermolaev said.
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