Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Kremlin has been illegally holding “elections” in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine using the same methodology: legitimising the illegal occupation and creating the illusion of democracy.
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Russia has not returned to its permanent location all the units involved in large-scale military exercises earlier this year, but has only increased its contingent in Crimea.
Despite loud Russian celebrations on the occasion of the “return” (and, in fact, occupation) of Crimea, the peninsula has been recognized only formally for eight years at the Russian level.