title: WHY RUSSIA CRIMEA OR COULD THE PENINSULA TO REMAIN UKRAINIAN
abstract: Goal. Find out why the leadership of the Russian Federation immediately agreed to join the Crimea and refuses not only from the accession of Donbass, but also from recognizing the independence of LDNR? And the last question, though history does not accept subjunctive mood, but still, could the Crimea to stay Ukrainian? Methods. Methods were used: analysis, analogy, deduction, induction, classification, observation, generalization, synthesis. Results. The analysis of the situation in Crimea on th
journal: History Economy Geopolitics