Transfer of Crimea to Ukraine

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In 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Crimea had been recognized within the Soviet Union as having "close economic and cultural ties" to the Ukrainian SSR, and the transfer commemorated the Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary (as the USSR's official historiography referred to the 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement as an "act of unification between Ukraine and Russia"). Amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian SSR seceded from the Soviet Union and Ukraine continued to exercise sovereignty over the territory as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Russia recognised Crimea as being a part of Ukraine for over two decades, having signed the Belovezha Accords in 1991 as well as the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 to guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity. But in 2014, it broke these guarantees and reverted its position when Crimea was annexed by Russia after coming under Russian...

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