Liberal lawyer: “Crimea is annexed, not occupied”
What happened in the spring of 2014 in Crimea is a “real annexation”, and not the will of the inhabitants of the peninsula. Russian liberal lawyer Ilya Novikov said this on air on the Iceland Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Novikov, who answered the presenter’s questions in Ukrainian, emphasized that calling Crimea “occupied” is incorrect. “International legal norms provide for a very clear term of occupation and the term...