Who does Crimea really belong to?

What is Crimea and is Crimea Ukraine's or Russia's? Crimea peninsula has long been a cornerstone of the Russian imperial narrative, with the country's centuries-long propaganda placing Russia as the "rightful historical owner" of the Ukrainian peninsula.

After Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, Russian propaganda has successfully spread the narrative of Russia's "return" of a "historic Russian land" among the international public, with many Western leaders soon abstaining from asserting that Ukraine must get the peninsula back.

This chapter of Ukraine's True History will explore the historical context that led to Crimea as it is today and answer why Russia doesn't have a "historic right" to annex Ukrainian Crimea.

Read the brief history of Crimea here: https://kyivindependent.com/who-does-...

This material is funded by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting within the program “Ukraine Forward: Amplifying Analysis.”
The program is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.

Producer: Olena Makarenko
Scriptwriters: Olena Makarenko, Francis Farrell
Motion design, illustration, animation, sound: Hanna Naronina
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Olga Rudenko, Toma Istomina
Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko

Opener:
Illustration by Alina Radomska
Motion design by Anastasia Nevmerzhytska



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00:00 - Crimea - is where Russia's war began in 2014
00:35 - The actual history of Crimea
00:55 - Who lived in Crimea?
01:16 - Who are Crimean Tatars? Are Crimean Tatars Ukrainians?
02:07 - Crimean Tatars and Cossacks
02:27 - How Crimea became part of the Russian Empire
02:58 - Collapse of the Russian Empire
03:35 - When did Crimea become part of Soviet Union?
03:58 - Why Stalin deported Crimean Tatars
04:34 - Did Nikita Khrushchev "gift" Crimea to Ukraine?
05:31 - Ukraine's Independence. Budapest Memorandum.
06:14 - Viktor Yanukovych and Russian warships in Crimea.
07:02 - How Russia annexed Crimea
07:50 - Moscow uses Crimea to launch full-scale war
8:20 - When will Ukraine get Crimea back?

In this video you will also find an answers to these popular questions: What is Crimea? Did Crimea belong to Russia? What's Crimea's short history? Was Crimea ever Russian territory? What Crimea means to Russia? How was Crimea annexed?
What happened in Crimea? How did Crimea become a part of Ukraine? How do Crimeans feel about Russia? How many Crimean Tatars are there?

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