title: What Went Wrong with Crimean Autonomy?
abstract: Like many other successor states of the Soviet Union Ukraine had to find a means to accommodate a Russian minority. The Crimean Peninsula was granted territorial autonomy within an otherwise unitary Ukrainian state. After already striving for this autonomy in the 1990s, the final design of the autonomy defined by the Ukrainian state and the Crimean constitution remained weak, as Kiev was anxious not to open a Pandora’s box for further disintegration. The events of March 2014 showed that the auto
journal: Security and Human Rights