Crimea and International Law: the 1992/1998 Constitutions, the Border, and Sovereignty (14.11.2021)

Date
14 November 2021
Duration
08:53
Platform
YouTube

A video dispute by Vitalii Dribnytsia on chat roulette with an interlocutor from Germany (who, by his own account, runs a historical video blog and likewise criticizes Russian propaganda — hence the title “A Pleasant Conversation”). The conversation touches on the Crimean constitutions of 1992 and 1998 and the concept of “the people of Crimea,” the 2003 Treaty on the Ukrainian-Russian State Border, and the international-law argument that Russia’s internal documents have no force over Ukraine’s sovereign border. A source for the articles on the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2014 and the 1954 transfer of Crimea.

Key moments

  1. 00:11 An interlocutor from Germany; the format of the conversation
  2. 01:12 The USSR and Nazi Germany: were they allies before 1941; the joint parade in Brest
  3. 03:18 "The people of Crimea": a legal novelty of the 1992 Crimean Constitution, removed in 1998
  4. 05:12 The 2003 Ukrainian-Russian border treaty; demarcation, not territorial claims
  5. 06:43 Russia's "internal document" against a sovereign border; an arbitration court is required
  6. 08:38 Farewell

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