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Crimea is Russian’ some argue (Burke-White 2014). ‘[T]he United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis’, others maintain (Mearsheimer 2014). Yet some go even further and announce apocalyptically a new Cold War (Roskin 2014). Leaving aside these and other opinions, the fact is that in early 2014 Crimea became the centre of a crisis with Russia and Ukraine as leading actors in the conflict. President Yanukovych was driven from power, Russia seized control of Crimea, and a referendum followed. Ukraine and most of the Western world considered the measures invalid (Barry 2014). In addition to the Crimean “local” crisis in which we may recognise three agents, that is Crimea, Ukraine, and Russia, it is also a reality that this dispute has larger repercussions geographically, politically, and culturally speaking not only for the region but potentially with regards to the globe (Molchanov 2004).