Analysis: Why Russia's Crimea Move Fails Legal Test

Mar 7, 2014 | BBC
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The Russian parliament says Crimea can become Russian territory if that is what the region's people decide they want in a referendum set for 16 March.Here Marc Weller, Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, examines the legal issues raised by Russia's intervention in Crimea. The territory became part of Soviet Ukraine in 1954 and remained Ukrainian after the Soviet collapse in 1991.