Crimea/2014 Crimean status “referendum”

Crimea

History

A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991.[1] An overwhelming majority of 92.3% of voters approved the declaration of independence made by the Verkhovna Rada on 24 August 1991.

1991 Ukrainian independence referendum

Interesting are the results by region:

Region	% for Ukraine
Luhansk Oblast	83.86
Donetsk Oblast	83.90
Crimean ASSR	54.19
Sevastopol City	57.07

Poll data

• https://romaninukraine.com/collection-of-surveys-about-sentiment-in-e-ukraine/ [1]

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1583461156286791680

https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=236

https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/iri.org/2014%20April%205%20IRI%20Public%20Opinion%20Survey%20of%20Ukraine,%20March%2014-26,%202014.pdf

https://romaninukraine.com/iri-public-opinion-survey-residents-of-ukraine-march-14-26/

“referendum”

13 years later, we are supposed to believe...

• Crimea referendum: What does the ballot paper say?

• 2014 Crimean status referendum

• Over 123% of Sevastopol residents vote to join Russia!

Actual results

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/06/russian-government-agency-reveals-fraudulent-nature-of-the-crimean-referendum-results/

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1682956505975332864

Observers

• Far-rights and neostalinists observing so-called ‘referendum’ in Crimea

Invasion

• Noted Russian war criminal Igor Girkin admits: local authorities in Crimea in 2014 had to be forced at gunpoint to back the Russian seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula. There was no local uprising - it was a Russian invasion

• Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)

• Ukrainian Rebel Commander Identified As Russian GRU Military Intelligence Colonel

• https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/02/17/origin-of-artillery-attacks/

== "There was not an armed invasion of Crimea"

https://twitter.com/GicAriana/status/1673194366586716162

“Russia annexed Crimea without bloodshed”

• “‘Russia annexed Crimea without bloodshed’?” [2] (PDF)

“Russia annexed Crimea without firing a single shot”

• Wikipedia: Serhiy Kokurin
  • On March 18th, 2014, Serhiy Kokurin became the first Ukrainian soldier to be killed in the war with Russia.

Other examples

Chechnya

https://www.alamy.com/russian-soldiers-enter-the-referendum-polling-station-in-chechen-settlement-of-khankala-march-22-2003-war-weary-chechens-began-voting-on-sunday-on-the-future-of-their-push-for-independence-in-a-referendum-promoted-by-the-kremlin-as-a-critical-step-towards-peace-picture-taken-march-22-2003-reuterspavel-pavlov-reuters-as-image380674669.html

Kherson

"Kherson is #Russia, there will be no Kherson People's Republic, there will be no referendums. There will be one decree based on our appeal to Vladimir Putin and there will be a request to introduce region into the Russian Federation", said occupying authorities of #Kherson."[3]

https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/1573585812322746369 "Kherson is #Russia, there will be no Kherson People's Republic, there will be no referendums. There will be one decree based on our appeal to Vladimir Putin and there will be a request to introduce region into the Russian Federation", said occupying authorities of #Kherson.

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe/manifestations-en-ukraine/guerre-en-ukraine-un-militant-francais-d-extreme-droite-parmi-les-etrangers-qui-observent-les-referendums-d-annexion_5378806.html

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-dugenet/blog/070621/la-nouvelle-extreme-droite-francaise

https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1573348280398151680

• https://twitter.com/KristoNurmis/status/1574078065143353344

• https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1574927606646206465

• https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine/status/1500050302036283396

• https://twitter.com/CedricMas/status/1576249005134139392

Kremlintarian support for the fake referendum

“ It’s remarkable a libertarian would support a sham like that.

— Mikhail Svetov, Libertarian Party of Russia [4]

• See Kremlintarianism

More

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/referendum-coverage-proves-media-is-still-vulnerable-to-russian-disinformation/

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1577658781860757507

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1533119410138927104 Pundits on Russian state TV begrudgingly acknowledge that Russian-speakers in Ukraine they supposedly came to "liberate" are actually fighting against invading Russian troops.

• https://twitter.com/KristoNurmis/status/1574078065143353344

• https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1583459564950724608

• https://khpg.org/en/1551054011

• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-two-bodies-found-brutally-tortured-in-slaviansk-says-president-oleksander-turchinov-9275542.html

• https://romaninukraine.com/3-killed-in-donetsk-as-pro-ukrainian-protesters-attacked/

• https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/war-against-ukraine/voting-in-crimean-referendum-starts-even-as-ukraine-government-declares-it-illegitimate-339523.html

• https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1585654580267851777

• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1585654580267851777.html

• Igor Girkin confirms in a T.V debate that there was no popular vote for Ukraine to secede Crimea. Crimean deputies were ordered at gunpoint by Russian special forces to vote for annexation.