By Ozeh Cornelius CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study What began as a domestic political crisis in Ukraine in February 2014, within a matter of months, assumed a global dimension with implications for the global political order that emerged after collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. A startled world has watched Ukraine’s political crisis unfold as demonstrators took over Kiev’s Independence Square and forced Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from office (and from the country). Then events became international with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the eruption of separatist insurgencies in Russian-speaking regions of Eastern Ukraine (Yekelchyk 2014) Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine with its own parliament and laws that permit the use of the Russian language in everyday life and empower local representatives to levy taxes (McMahon, 2014). This autonomy and the pro Russian stance of the peninsula are largely rooted in history (Lee 2014)....
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