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RUSSIA AND THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE Armando Marques Guedes 22 de novembro, 2018 Geopolítica, CEMC, IUM... Vladimir Putin and the Black Sea, July 2013... Putin; 16-19 February 2014, over 1

RUSSIA AND THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE

Armando Marques Guedes

22 de novembro, 2018

Geopolítica, CEMC, IUM

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin and the Black Sea, July

2013

the weight of History: the three-fold Ukraine

Maidan Square, Kiev, Ukraine

17 th September, 2013, Ukrainian-Russian Action plan, signed by V Yanukovych and V Putin; 16-19 February 2014, over 100 sniper deaths in Maidan; below, the Right Sector activists reacting

a Black Sea map

US Ambassador Michael McFaul and President Barack

Obama during the turn-round

on the Kremlin’s strategic depth: the Cold War

the twinned NATO and EU expansions: on the

Kremlin’s perception of a double threat

NATO expansion east

NATO, expansion

NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP)

member-States

expanding NATO: during the Cold War

up to 1990, and now, 2018

the geopolitical framework of “anti-maritime powers”

Putin Eurasianist land-mass theories:

maîtres-penseurs Alexandr Dugin and Sergey Karaganov

Visegrad Geography

Ukraine’s historical dance with geography

the geography of governance: the Yanukovych map

the geography of governance: the Yatsenyuk map

Russian Navy in Crimea

southern Ukraine, Crimea, and oil and gas

the UN vote and the sea riches

UN Security Council: Churkin and Friends

The vote at the General Assembly was 100 to 10

celebratory coin, Crimea; pre-dated

the viral Cry Me

a River joke

a small part of the large group a Marines of the Black Sea Fleet,

leaving Crimea and going to Tartus, Syria, July 2012

one of two Chinese warships, the Jingkai II (Type 054A) class frigate 538 Yantai, passing through the Dardanelles, July 2012: a message and a warning

a NATO fleet, moving to face off the Russian Federation Fleet

in the eastern Mediterranean, Summer 2013

a blockade: March 3, 2014, Sevastopol, Ukraine, the Russian

Black Sea Fleet blockade in sync with the Anschluss

the Kremlin blockade, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 3rd March, 2014

13 March, 2014: towed into the Bosphorus; “the USS

Truxtun destroyer started a military exercise with the Bulgarian and Romanian navies in the Black Sea”

the “US warship USS Donald-Cook sails through the

Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 10, 2014, en

route to the Black Sea”.

pro-Ukrainian women

Ukranian resistance propaganda

Russian or pro-Russians?

pro-Ukrainian demo

Russia special forces train

a few Russian militias with captive

pro-Russians “brotherly relations” with

a pro-Ukraine Ukrainian

Ukranian police

facing off the Ukrainian police

Sebastopol: taking Ukrainian down

in the Donbas, eastern Ukraine, tanks and cows

little green man, and Russian revisionism in action

little green men, Russian-Ukrainian version

Putin and Merkel, tensions

US troops arriving in Poland and the Baltics

iIn his famous Sebastopol speech, Putin taunting us all from

Crimea, ‘Russia’; Sudetenland revisited

in April 2014, as Odessa was about to blow up

too

some Russian moves, mid-March 2014

Odessa protest

Odessa

the Odessa carnage: over 80 dead

stepping up the carnage: May 2, 2014,

the Trade Union Building, Odessa

no comments

early Putin, before Georgia: Grosny

North Caucasus pro-Russians, election

day, Donetsk

some of the Western support to Russia

Europe’s new containment, STRATFOR

Petro Porochenko voting; he won

'far-right' votes shares, Europe, 25 May, 2014

pro-Nazi demo, Moscow, March 2014

after the elections, preparing Minsk and then Minsk II

one of the always temporary cease-fires

BM 21 Grad

Putin calls until late August, 2014t; Germany

Europe’s new containment: Intermarium redux

Summer 2014: conflicts in comparative perspective

the myth of Russian economic growth under Putin

the surge in Donbas: government control in red

rebel control: the surge from June to September 2014

January, 2018: Ukraine declares Russian

'occupation' in eastern region

the situation in eastern Ukraine, 10 May, 2018