出版社：Government of the Russian Federation, Financial University
摘要：The paper addresses the issues of integration of the Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into the RussianFederation.The economic implications of political steps made by the Russian government to introduce the Crimeainto the economic and legal space of the Russian Federation are evaluated.The entry of the Crimea into theRussian Federation followed by significant investments is supposed to have cost much less than the prospectsfor the Crimea to be embedded in the economic and political development scenarios of modern Ukraine. Thepaper considers the political consequences of the Crimea's integration into Russia. In the authors' opinion, thisintegration has become an important event in the world politics that has significantly changed the field ofinternational relations and the “rules of the game". It is shown that the Crimean events have changed the vectorof the Russian politic development both inside the country and within the international community. Lt is provedthat the integration of the Crimea is becoming an important factor in the Russian political discourse linking theexternal and internal policies of modern Russia.This underlines the importance of the Crimean agenda in thepublic perception. The accession of the Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to the Russian Federation allowed theruling elite of modern Russia to use the opened opportunities to the best effect in the interests of their ownlegitimation. The attitude of Russian citizens and Russia's political allies to the Crimea's accession will directlydepend on the development of the conflict in the South East of Ukraine and the damage to the country's economyfrom Western sanctions. At the same time, the prospects for the peninsula to avoid the development of eventstaking place on the territory of Ukraine proved to be more important than the"price" of the economic crisis and thedifficulties of its entering the Russian economic and legal space.
