REFERENCE: Territory on the Kerch Peninsula (Part I)

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/31/russia-alexey-navalny-announces-hunger-strike/

The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny announced on Wednesday that he will begin a hunger strike to demand access to an independent doctor as his health has declined dramatically since he was transferred in late February to a penal colony east of Moscow notorious for its harsh conditions.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-says-he-will-end-hunger-n1265043

In an Instagram post, Navalny said he would end the strike that he began on March 31 to demand medical care from his personal doctor.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait

The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east. The strait is 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) to 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) wide and up to 18 metres (59 ft) deep.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuzla_Island#2003_dispute

There was a territorial dispute over the ownership of the island between Ukraine and Russia in October 2003. The Russian authorities claimed the 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine had only included the continental parts of Crimea, even though the Tuzla Island had been administratively part of Crimea since 1941.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait_incident

The Kerch Strait incident was an international incident that occurred on 25 November 2018 in the Kerch Strait, during which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coast guard fired upon and captured three Ukrainian Navy vessels after they attempted to transit from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov through the strait on their way to the port of Mariupol. It was the first time that Russian forces had openly engaged Ukrainian forces during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Bridge

The Crimean Bridge (Russian: Крымский мост, romanized: Krymskiy most, IPA: [ˈkrɨmskʲij most]), also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges, one for a four-lane road and one for a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in Russia and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea.

 

https://earthquaketrack.com/r/crimea-ukraine/recent

Recent earthquakes near Crimea, Ukraine.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_waters

In internal waters, sovereignty of the state is equal to that which it exercises on the mainland. The coastal state is free to make laws relating to its internal waters, regulate any use, and use any resource. In the absence of agreements to the contrary, foreign vessels have no right of passage within internal waters, and this lack of right to innocent passage is the key difference between internal waters and territorial waters.

 

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/europe/ukraine/russia-announces-closure-of-kerch-strait-blocks-2-ukrainian-ports/2021/04/15/

This step is a gross violation of the right to freedom of navigation, guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. According to the Convention, the Russian Federation should not impede or interfere with transit passage through the international strait to ports in the Sea of Azov.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/eu-will-not-impose-more-russia-sanctions-despite-concerns-about-troop-buildup-ukraine-border-1585015

Despite the buildup of thousands of Russian troops on the border of Ukraine, the European Union will not impose further sanctions against Moscow, according to the European Union's foreign policy chief.

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/russia-begins-troop-drawdown-ukraine-borders-3186516

Russia on Friday began withdrawing its armed forces that had been on manoeuvres near the borders of Ukraine following weeks of heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over the troop build-up.

 

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Kerch Peninsula & Strait

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_map_of_Crimea_(disputed_status).jpg
Physical map of the Crimea
The picture has geographical notations added and is used under the public domain status.

 

Kerch Strait Bridge

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerch_Strait_Bridge,_2018-04-14.jpg
Kerch Strait Bridge, Sentinel-2 imagery
The picture has geographical notations added and is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license..