What Happened to Crimea?
A Brief Overview of the Crimean Annexation
12 min readDec 23, 2020
Before Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, any serious threat to undermine post-Soviet territory from Russia was deemed unlikely.
Political analysts, world leaders, and strategists alike, therefore, found the developments in Crimea surprising. Since then, we do not know how far Putin will go to expand his empire … and for how long.
