Redrawing borders, reshaping orders: Russia’s quest for dominance in the Black Sea region

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Figure 1. The Black Sea region.

Note: Map prepared by the author based on data from, inter alia, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

Figure 2. Legal order of the Black Sea region since March 2014, as imposed by Russia.

Note: Map prepared by the author based on data from, inter alia, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Similar maps, showing the extent of Russia’s de facto maritime jurisdiction areas in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, have been published in prominent Russian newspapers. See, for instance, Kolesnichenko (2016).

Kolesnichenko, A. 2016. Ni pyadi morskoy gladi. Ch'i morya vokrug Kryma? [Not an inch of the sea surface: To whom do the seas around Crimea belong?]. Argumenty i fakty, 30 November [online]. Available from: https://aif.ru/politics/world/ni_pyadi_morskoy_gladi_chi_morya_vokrug_kryma [Accessed 1 December 2020].

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