Commentary
The forgotten Armenian past of Crimea
Since 2014, Russia has promoted a nationalist and irredentist narrative portraying Crimea as "historically Russian land," using it to justify its illegal occupation and subsequent annexation of the peninsula. While Western governments firmly condemned the move, some observers described Putin’s operation as unlawful but nonetheless legitimate, considering it a correction of a perceived "historical error." Unfortunately, Russian rhetoric has found several supporters outside the country, a phenom
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Crimea and the war in Ukraine is not an Armenian issue and problem. What is this insistence of including other countries’ problems and conflicts in Armenian Weekly, with the authors practically expecting Armenia to take sides? Armenia is dealing with its own gargantuan and existential problems. Why on earth should it pick sides, and side with or against Ukraine, Sudan, Somalia, etc., or in the conflicts and problems of other countries? When Ukraine consistently supported Azerbaijan against Armenia on the Artsakh issue, why should Armenia support Ukraine?
A waterfall in Crimea is called appropriately Jur-Jur : water-water in Armenian. It has no equivalent name in Tartar or Ukrainian.
Ukraine supported Azerbaijan on the principle of territorial integrity and for Armenia being aligned to Russia. Those who say Armenia should remain neutral ought not lament indifference from other countries in it’s own issues on that basis. It also shows that Russia quite happy to claim unfair Soviet boundaries over Crimea yet always maintained that Arktash/ N-K was part of Azerbaijan and that Armenia was a dupe in supporting Russia over Crimea although refraining from recognising Russian annexations and Russia was selling arms to as ready to be used on ally Armenia. Separately the Crimea has long chequered history and demographics..