NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg linked Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula with the confrontation of superpowers. This is an important observation that turns the conflict around Crimea – like other similar conflicts – into part of the great global political drama. And which, I think, makes the inhabitants of the peninsula – as, indeed, of all other Ukrainian citizens – hostages of this great confrontation.
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Vitaliy Portnikov: Crimea and the ‘confrontation of superpowers’
A Russian soldier patrols in front of a placard reading "Fascism will not pass! All to the referendum!" near the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 19, 2014.
