Tag: self-determination

Putin Asserts Right of Russians to Self-Determination Even Though Peoples of Russia Don’t Have It

May 12, 2014

Staunton, May 10 – Speaking in Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, President Vladimir Putin called on all countries “to respect the right of Russians to self-determination,” but he failed to note, Boris Vishnevsky points out, that there is no such right for peoples on the territory of the Russian Federation. In an Ekho Moskvy blog post […]