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Since the dissolution of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]], leaders of the [[Russian Federation]] have made it absolutely clear to the leaders of the [[NATO]] alliance that the Sevastopol naval base will never be used by NATO, absent Russia itself joining the NATO alliance.<ref>https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Crimea-so-important-to-Russia</ref><ref>https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/02/the-obama-regimes-plan-to-seize-the-russian-naval-base-in-crimera/</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/ukraine-russia-crimea-naval-base-tatars-explainer</ref>
Since the dissolution of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]], leaders of the [[Russian Federation]] have made it absolutely clear to the leaders of the [[NATO]] alliance that the Sevastopol naval base will never be used by NATO, absent Russia itself joining the NATO alliance.<ref>https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Crimea-so-important-to-Russia</ref><ref>https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/02/the-obama-regimes-plan-to-seize-the-russian-naval-base-in-crimera/</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/ukraine-russia-crimea-naval-base-tatars-explainer</ref>
==Dissolution of the Soviet Union==
The nominal successor to the Soviet Union was the Commonwealth of Independent States; Ukraine joined on Dec. 8, 1991. Serious tensions soon emerged with Russia as [[Moscow]] took possession of the [[Black Sea]] fleet anchored at Sevastopol, while some Russian politicians wanted the [[Donbas]] and the [[Crimea]]; the latter, being in Russian hands since 1783, had been transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities without referendum or self-determination of peoples in 1954.
==See also==
==See also==