Russia’s representatives have assured the European Court of Human Rights that Ukraine in February – March 2014 was controlled by ‘fascists’ from whom Russian soldiers had merely ‘protected’ Crimeans until 18 March 2014 when the latter ‘joined’ Russia. Allegations of grave human rights violations, they asserted, were “groundless” and Ukraine’s application against Russia “political”, based on a “propaganda imperative” to blame Russia for events in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
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Halya Coynash: Russia tells ECHR that it didn’t annex Crimea
A elderly woman walks in front of a graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin on a building in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 12, 2018.
