The problem of Crimea will not be resolved quickly. Though Putin declared in his annexation speech that Crimea is an inseparable part of Russia, his behavior will turn against him.

Then we are witnessing not a peacekeeping operation but, again, a trivial military annexation of part of Georgia by Russia, where these military units are securing the borders of annexed territories.

Their economic relationship, too, seems to be progressing. Last May, shortly after the annexation of Crimea, Russia announced a 400 billion deal to supply 38 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to China annually for 30 years, beginning in 2019.

To the extent that most of the residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have already been given Russian citizenship, the recognition of those two regions sovereignty would be entirely fictitious and, in fact, an interim measure on the way to their full annexation by Russia.

The Southern Netherlands remained part of the Holy Roman Empire until its annexation to France in 1794.

Construction of the wall on Palestinian territory could only be regarded as de facto annexation, and the annexation of occupied territories was proscribed by the United Nations Charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Indeed, Israeli settlements have amounted to de facto Israeli annexation of territory into which Palestinians seek to expand their state.

Most of the world does not recognize Russia's subsequent annexation of the territory of Crimea.

The annexation of the island is regulated by the Dependency Act of 24 March 1933.

The annexation was announced in the British parliament as a New Year gift to Queen Victoria on 1 January 1886.

In 1974 Turkey had intervened as a guarantor Power , under the 1960 Agreements, to prevent annexation of Cyprus by Greece.

The annexation of Egypt, Sicily and Tunisia in North Africa provided a continuous supply of grains.

The international community should require Israel to explain how the annexation of territories and the establishment of settlements constituted self defence.

He clashed with the Bloc leadership that failed to prevent the annexation of Alexandretta to Turkey in 1939, and resigned from Bloc ranks.

The wall was an unmistakeable act of territorial annexation in the guise of self defence and security.

With Britain, there was a mutual agreement, Japan also agreeing to support British annexation of the Pacific islands south of the equator.

Morocco's policy of economic annexation of Western Sahara was a clear violation of the right of the Saharan people to self determination.

The construction, if it were to be irreversible, would constitute a de facto annexation of a substantial part of the West Bank.

Let Russia Be Russia

China s Threat to Russia

In 1917, Japan had made secret agreements with Britain, France and Italy that guaranteed their annexation of these territories.

Declaration by the organizations that participated the Third Forum of Cuban civil society against the embargo and the annexation

It is the Bush plan for annexation, which seeks to return us to the disgraceful situation of the past and eliminate the Cuban nation at any cost.

Clearly, an ostracized Russia is a dangerous Russia.

In this regard, Israel continues to confiscate land in Occupied East Jerusalem and to enact other unlawful measures in its drive to entrench its illegal annexation of the city.

However there is a growing movement, the People's Charter Movement , calling for the practical annexation of the country by South Africa due to the AIDS epidemic.

The Court's advisory opinion holds that the construction of the wall could create facts on the ground tantamount to the actual annexation of occupied Palestinian territory.

This period saw continued Portuguese colonial expansion in Angola, Mozambique, and Malacca, as well as the annexation of Macau in 1557.

Steps made by the Russian Federation presently strengthens the separatist regimes and de facto annexation of a part of Georgia's territory.

Steps made by the Russian Federation presently strengthens the separatist regimes and de facto annexation of a part of Georgia's territory.

The wall is a visible and clear act of territorial annexation by Israel under the guise of self defence and security.

According to one of the Secretary General's reports to the General Assembly, the wall, if completed, would lead to the annexation of about 1,000 square kilometres of the West Bank.

From Memory to Denial in Russia

From Football to Fascism in Russia

Has Russia Gone Back to Sleep?

The same stagnation applies to Russia.

Any conduct that runs counter to the United Nations Charter, such as the annexation of territories, must always be repudiated by the international community as a whole.

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The end of the war resulted in the occupation and the renewed annexation of the three Baltic States by the Soviet Union.

Neither Russia nor China, of course, would be invited to join indeed, McCain wants to exclude Russia from the G8.

MOSCOW From Russia with love? Not in Vladimir Putin s Russia.

Putin s supposedly heroic victory came in the war with Georgia of 2008, followed by the subsequent virtual annexation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Before the annexation of Serbia in 924, Bulgaria did not yet border on Zahumlje and a part of Croatia lay between both lands.

Today, Turkmenistan refuses to cooperate with Russia.

Russia reverted to a neo authoritarian system.