Tag: Crimea

At the time, Putin rightly labelled the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s once democratically elected government as a coup (Mearsheimer 2014 p.77), but Russophobia meant few heard his apt indictment.  Instead, events that transpired in Kyiv were posed at the time to Western citizens as a ‘democratic revolution’, a “Revolution of Dignity” (Wittke 2019) even receiving…